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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - More than 220,000 South Koreans have been victims of online identity theft in connection with a popular Web-based fantasy game, a sign of growing problems with information protection in one of the world's most wired countries.
The victims have filed complaints with the operator of "Lineage" in the past week after discovering that accounts for the game had been set up in their names without their knowledge, the Seoul-based game company NCSoft said.
To sign up for a game account, Internet users must provide their name and resident registration number, which is the main form of national identification. Police are investigating who stole the personal information.
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