KR: Hacking scheme targeted 120,000 home cameras for sexual footage

Four people have been charged in South Korea with hacking into tens of thousands of private video cameras in homes and businesses in search of sexually exploitative footage, authorities said on Monday, 2 December 2025. In a news release, according to Korean National Police Agency, the suspects stole footage from about 120,000 cameras, illegally manipulating and selling hundreds of videos to an overseas-based website.

Two of the suspects combined had contributed more than half the content on the website, the release said, and they were investigated between November last year and October; Kim Young-woon, chief of the agency’s Cyber Terror Investigation Unit, said in an interview they did not know each other. One of the suspects is charged with producing sexually exploitative content of children and adolescents, and police allege the footage stored by that suspect had been stored but not sold. Read more at The Washington Post.