Weverse, the employee leaked personal information.."Only trying to intervene whether you won the fan signing event"

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Choi Joon-won, CEO of the fandom platform Weverse Company, a subsidiary of Hive, apologized for the controversy over the leakage of personal information and manipulation of winners.

Choi Joon-won, CEO of Weverse Company, said in a Weverse announcement on the 5th, "It has been confirmed that an internal employee has leaked other people's personal information without permission and tried to use it for private purposes," adding, "We recognize that the responsibility for the poor management of the members of Weverse Company is a big issue beyond the individual deviant behavior of the members."

Choi then said he confirmed the issue during a face-to-face, written and forensics investigation of the members' misconduct. "An employee of the department in charge of fan events asked the relevant department that runs the fan signing event about "whether one particular applicant has won" in relation to the fan signing event, which is not his job, and later encouraged conversations to check additional birth years other than the name," he said. "The name and birth year information were shared in a closed group room of 6 employees and fan acquaintances of the same artist."

"The employee attempted to intervene in whether to win the event, but no actual intervention or change was made, and the applicant was finally confirmed to have won and participated in the event," he said.

"In addition to the above, a number of violations and violations, including breach of duty and obstruction of work, were confirmed during the investigation," he said. "As a result, he immediately excluded the member from his work, and submitted a referral to the HR committee and a criminal complaint." We will take stern measures in accordance with legal procedures, and if there is a request for cooperation in the investigation by the investigative agency in the future, we will work faithfully," he said.

Finally, CEO Choi promised, "We will further strengthen education on members' personal information protection standards and continue to improve the internal management system," adding, "We will strengthen the security control system for personal information handlers and operate the regular monitoring environment more strictly."

Recently, the contents of a messenger asking whether a Weverse employee won a fan signing event or whether he could be excluded from the list were leaked, which caused controversy.

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