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A person who hacked into an apartment wallpad and secretly filmed other people's private lives has been caught.

He was introduced as a security expert in the media, and about 400,000 houses have been damaged in this way.



This is reporter Park Se-won.



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[November 25, 2021, SBS 8 News: As this apartment wall pad system was hacked, a large number of videos inside the home were leaked through the camera...

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A woman sits on a sofa during the day and eats, while a man ties the curtains or opens and closes a window.



In October of last year, photos and videos uploaded to a foreign website were presumed to be illegal videos that secretly filmed other people's private lives by activating the camera mounted on the wall pad through hacking.



After the SBS report, the police launched an investigation and identified a man in his 30s as the suspect within a year.



There are more than 400,000 confirmed households nationwide, and more than 200 videos and more than 400,000 photos have been secured by the police.



It was investigated that Mr. Lee tried to sell private life videos illegally filmed from August to November of last year through overseas Internet sites.



In the past, Mr. Lee was introduced as a security expert explaining the problem of wall pad hacking in the media.



Mr. Lee denied the allegation, saying that it was not for the purpose of selling to the police, but to raise awareness about the problem of the wallpad.



[Lee Gyu-bong/Chief Cyber ​​Terror Investigation Chief, National Police Agency: There is a function to set a password when you go to the setting function in the wall pad in the household.

If possible, change the password periodically...

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While the police are prosecuting Mr. Lee for violating the Information and Communications Act, they are also reviewing a plan to additionally prosecute the video in which body parts are filmed as a sex crime.



(Video coverage: Jeong Seong-hwa, video editing: Kim Jun-hee)