{"id":139399,"date":"2025-03-18T06:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=139399"},"modified":"2025-03-18T06:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:41:24","slug":"seventeen-fights-back-with-legal-action-against-obsessive-fans-and-privacy-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/seventeen-fights-back-with-legal-action-against-obsessive-fans-and-privacy-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"SEVENTEEN fights back with legal action against obsessive fans and privacy breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pledis Entertainment<\/strong> is done playing nice! On March 17, the agency behind <strong>SEVENTEEN<\/strong> announced <strong>legal action<\/strong> against those invading the group&#8217;s privacy and spreading harmful rumors. This includes individuals leaking unreleased album details, exposing flight information, and posting defamatory content online against SEVENTEEN. The situation has escalated since 2023, with confidential details about the group surfacing on anonymous forums. Now, the agency is pushing forward with formal complaints, which they have been planning since the latter half of 2024.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/minghaocheol_\/status\/1901500597951779117\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">pledis posting an update notice on legal proceedings specifically regarding leaks, malicious posts, and violations and threats to artists&#39; safety<\/p>\n<p>currently they&#39;ve been filing complaints and suspected individuals r currently on investigation wow <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BlvykCNAsb\">pic.twitter.com\/BlvykCNAsb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; hannie \u263b (@minghaocheol_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/minghaocheol_\/status\/1901500597951779117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One shocking revelation? An airline employee was criminally charged for illegally selling <strong>SEVENTEEN\u2019s flight details<\/strong>, violating South Korea\u2019s data protection laws. Pledis has filed legal complaints under the Act on Punishment of Crime of Stalking to tackle these invasions of privacy. The company is also fighting back against online harassment, targeting defamatory statements, false rumors, and malicious posts circulating on platforms like X, YouTube, and TheQoo.<\/p>\n<p>SEVENTEEN fans are being called to action\u2014Pledis has urged them to report harmful content via HYBE\u2019s official <strong>Artist Rights Violation Report Website<\/strong>. They also reassured fans that SEVENTEEN\u2019s safety remains a top priority, declaring that their artists\u2019 rights will remain protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pledis Entertainment is done playing nice! On March 17, the agency behind SEVENTEEN announced legal action against those invading the group&#8217;s privacy and spreading harmful rumors. This includes individuals leaking unreleased album details, exposing flight information, and posting defamatory content online against SEVENTEEN. The situation has escalated since 2023, with confidential details about the group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":139400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[1064],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-seventeen"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139399"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=139399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}