SEOUL, April 12 (UPI) -- Police in South Korea said they arrested a man suspected of aiding hackers who demanded money for not revealing bank data stolen from Hyundai Capital.
Police did not reveal the name of the man arrested, the Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday.
The bank said Friday that personal information concerning 420,000 customers, including passwords that allowed transactions to occur, had been stolen.
Police said the suspect was apprehended after he paid a user fee for an Internet server that was used to hack into the bank's data base.
The suspect said he paid $6 to the server at the request of an unidentified person whom he knew from an Internet chat room, Yonhap reported.
Police are also looking for suspects in the Philippines, a man and a woman, who were caught on bank cameras withdrawing money from an account where the bank sent $63,723 in response to an e-mailed request for money in return for keeping the stolen data secret.
The suspects, described as in their 20s, withdrew about $26,500 from the account, police said.
