Shin

Biography: 

A 39 year old Korean that was very well known for hacking into Hyundai Financial Services systems. He was able to attain details on 1.75 million customers by hacking into a proxy server that the administrators used in that firm. Once he gained this information he contacted Hyundai and blackmailed them for over $500,000 dollars or else he would release this information to the public. Hyundai decided to pay him $100,000 dollars for him to not release the data, he agreed. After that event he was wanted by Interpol and to elude them he passed himself off as Japanese. A Korean accomplice known as Heo was arrested and ratted him out. Shin was arrested by the Philippine authorities in the Batangas province in 2011. He was released on December 14, 2012 and repatriated back to Korea.

Facts

A 36 year old real estate agent named Jeong offered him 10,000 dollars to hack into their servers.

Rumors

He wanted to be a pop singer in the year 2000.

He sucked as a singer so he instead focused on hacking.

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