In a bomb threat case targeting large companies including Kakao, all the people who appeared as the posters of the messages claimed identity theft, and they pointed to one suspect in his teens, whom police are currently investigating.
According to the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency on the 5th, at a regular briefing that day, it said, "There are three posters in this case, excluding the person who impersonated the president, and including one more confirmed through related statements, we are currently investigating a total of four people."
Previously, from Dec. 15 to 23 last year, bomb installation threats targeting Kakao, Naver, KT and Samsung Electronics were posted 11 times on the Kakao CS Center (customer center) bulletin board and elsewhere.
In the posts, the poster wrote that they were, respectively, a dropout from a certain high school in Daegu, a student at a certain middle school in Gwangju, and only a name as ○○○, and threatened, "I installed explosives."
Police questioned the three teenagers but all claimed they were victims of identity theft. It is also known that they identified another teenager, referred to as A, as a suspect.
Police believe the three who claim identity theft and A have built relationships in cyberspace and are investigating whether A is involved.
A police official said, "We see similarities across all 11 offenses and are currently investigating," adding, "There appears to be some degree of connection between the people claiming identity theft and A, but we cannot provide details."