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7-Year Prison Sentence Confirmed for Operator of 'Adultery Monitoring' Illegal Wiretapping App… 3.4 Billion Won in Profits

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Mi-ryeong = Billions of won were earned by selling mobile phone surveillance applications (apps) that intercept call content in real time and secretly collect location information...

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The operator of a company that earned approximately 3.4 billion won by developing an application capable of verifying the location and eavesdropping on calls by installing invisible apps on children's or spouses' mobile phones has had their five-year prison sentence finalized. On the 10th of last month, the Supreme Court's Second Division (presiding Justice Oh Kyung-mi) ruled on charges including violations of the Protection of Communications Se…

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Mi-ryeong = Billions of won were earned by selling mobile phone surveillance applications (apps) that intercept call content in real time and secretly collect location information...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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The operator of a company that sold illegal surveillance apps capable of extracting call content, messages, and location information in real time when secretly installed on mobile phones targeting "cheating husbands" and others has had their seven-year prison sentence finalized. According to Yonhap News and legal sources on the 4th, Supreme Court Justice Oh Kyung-mi, presiding over the Second Division, recently upheld the lower court's ruling se…

Supreme Court rules that the CEO of a company that sold illegal wiretapping and surveillance applications (apps) and managed recording servers must be held 'jointly liable' for the buyers' illegal recording of phone calls.

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
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