Korea Food Research Institute employee caught mining virtual currency using agency budget... ”sloppy information security” pointed out

In the case of the Korea Food Research Institute, where an employee was arrested for secretly mining virtual currency using the institution's budget, criticism has been raised that the information security awareness of research institutes in the science and technology industry is sloppy.
On the 17th, Rep. Kim Jang-gyeom of the People Power Party and Rep. Lee Jung-hong of the Democratic Party of Korea held a parliamentary audit by the Science, Information and Communications Committee on Food and Drugs, and
Lee Jung-hong, the head of the Korea Food Research Institute, said, "The Food Research Institute staff in question extended their ID and PIN numbers for one year after leaving the company and continued to use them."
"How could something like this happen?" he said. He also asked, "How could someone illegally take out information by circumventing the connection?" and "Important information was stored on a PC connected to the Internet,
"Is it possible that the information was leaked from the outside and the documents were stolen?" Rep. Kim Jang-gyeom also said, "The information security awareness of each research institute is lacking."
"It is very shocking and we must take issue with it," said Baek Hyun-hee, president of the National Research Institute for Science and Technology (NST), and Kim Bok-cheol, chairman of the National Research Institute for Science and Technology (NST).
Prior to this, the NST Audit Committee had filed criminal charges and launched an audit regarding the Food Research Institute's cryptocurrency mining and research data leaks.
A Food Research Institute official said at the time (early September), "We discovered the problem during an internal inspection and requested an audit from the NST. We are currently in the process of holding an internal procedure, including holding a disciplinary committee meeting based on the audit results."
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