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South Korean telco KT allegedly deliberately infected some customers with malware due to excessive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading tools.
The number of infected users of “web hard drives” the South Korean term for the online storage services that allow uploading and sharing of content has reportedly reached 600,000 .
Police reportedly searched KT 's headquarters and datacenter and seized evidence, in pursuit of evidence the telco violated South Korea’s Communications Secrets Protection Act and Information and Communications Network Act.
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