Han issues emergency order to ”check appropriateness of incident response” regarding SKT USIM card hacking

On the 27th, Prime Minister Han Deok-soo, acting as the President, said in relation to the SK Telecom USIM information hacking incident, "I will appoint SKT to quickly resolve the inconvenience and anxiety of the people caused by this incident."
The ministry also called on the Ministry of Science and ICT to carefully consider the appropriateness of measures such as subscribing to USIM protection services and replacing USIM cards.
On that day, Han said, "The Ministry of Science and Information Technology will lead the Korea Communications Commission and the Personal Information Protection Commission.
The Information Protection Commission and other relevant ministries and agencies should make every effort to quickly resolve the inconvenience to the public." Acting Minister Han said, "We will thoroughly analyze the cause of the ongoing accident and provide the truth to the public without hiding anything.
"We need to inform them," he said, "and we need the relevant ministries and agencies, including the Ministry of Science and Information Technology, the National Assembly, and the Personal Information Protection Commission, to thoroughly review and improve the current information protection system to prepare for the increasing number of cyber attacks."
Meanwhile, SK Telecom said it had confirmed that some information about users' USIM cards had been leaked by hackers using malware at around 11 p.m. on the 19th of this month.
SK Telecom has 23 million mobile subscribers.