SK Telecom Continues to Lose Users After Data Breach

SK Telecom continues to lose users after data breach

SK Telecom has seen a huge drop in the number of subscribers since a large-scale data breach hit hard the nation's largest mobile carrier in April. Mobile number portability (MNP) switches across SK T...

South Korea's largest telecom operator suffers mass exodus of customers over data leak

SK Telecom sees nearly one million users switch carriers but still leads the market - Anadolu Ajansı

SKT customer base drops by 500k

SK Telecom (SKT), the largest mobile operator in South Korea by subscribers, registered a net loss of more than half a million users since it was hit by a cyberattack in April, data from the Korea Telecommunications Operations Association (KTOA) showed. SKT accounted for 47.2 per cent of the 933,509 customers changing operators in May, The Korean Herald reported, citing the KTOA figure. In April the figure rose to 691,000. The association noted …

Nearly 1 million users switch mobile carriers in May in wake of SKT data breach

In May, nearly 940,000 people switched mobile carriers — an unprecedented figure, as the number had not exceeded 500,000 in the past five years — in the wake of a major data leak of SK Telecom, with most users moving to competitor KT.