{"id":581622,"date":"2026-05-13T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581622\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:51:08","slug":"alleged-scammer-extradited-after-hacking-attempt-on-bts-star-jungkook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581622\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged scammer extradited after hacking attempt on BTS star Jungkook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The alleged hacking took place between August 2023 and April 2025, reports say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chairman of a &#8220;major conglomerate&#8221; and the boss of a venture company were among the other victims, according to AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have said they plan to seek a warrant to arrest the suspect after questioning him and analysing evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The suspect, who is unnamed, was based in Bangkok until the extradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In August last year, a 36-year-old Chinese national who is part of the same ring was also extradited from Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was indicted in September and is now standing trial in South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged hacking took place between August 2023 and April 2025, reports say. The chairman of a &#8220;major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-581622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}