{"id":147244,"date":"2025-08-22T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=147244"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:35:17","slug":"a-chinese-hacker-ring-leader-was-arrested-for-using-bts-jungkooks-name-to-steal-6-03-million-worth-of-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/a-chinese-hacker-ring-leader-was-arrested-for-using-bts-jungkooks-name-to-steal-6-03-million-worth-of-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese hacker ring leader was arrested for using BTS&#8217; Jungkook\u2019s name to steal $6.03 million worth of stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Jungkook<\/strong> is back in the worldwide headlines after a Chinese hacking group attempted to steal <strong>$6.03 million worth<\/strong> of shares in HYBE. The news caused a commotion among the K-Netizens and the fans, after they discovered the illegal group was using an account registered under BTS member Jungkook.<\/p>\n<p>On August 22, the 34-year-old Chinese national was accused of leading a group that hacked personal information from multiple websites from August 2023 to January 2024, and used it<strong> to draw out funds from the accounts of wealthy individuals and celebrities, including the Golden Maknae<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HYBE-froze-all-Jungkook-accounts-to-prevent-a-syphon-from-his-finnancial-accounts-.jpg\" alt=\"The hacker impersonated Jungkook online to get access to his finnacial accounts\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HYBE-froze-all-Jungkook-accounts-to-prevent-a-syphon-from-his-finnancial-accounts-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HYBE-froze-all-Jungkook-accounts-to-prevent-a-syphon-from-his-finnancial-accounts--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HYBE-froze-all-Jungkook-accounts-to-prevent-a-syphon-from-his-finnancial-accounts--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HYBE-froze-all-Jungkook-accounts-to-prevent-a-syphon-from-his-finnancial-accounts--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HYBE-froze-all-Jungkook-accounts-to-prevent-a-syphon-from-his-finnancial-accounts--1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HYBE-froze-all-Jungkook-accounts-to-prevent-a-syphon-from-his-finnancial-accounts--680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HYBE-froze-all-Jungkook-accounts-to-prevent-a-syphon-from-his-finnancial-accounts--200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, BTS\u2019 Jungkook enlisted in the South Korean military in January 2024, and an attempt was made to<strong> impersonate<\/strong> the idol\u2019s identity to gain access to his securities accounts. Jungkook\u2019s music agency, HYBE, flagged the suspicious activity and<strong> froze<\/strong> the accounts before any funds from the idol were lost.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Justice and the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, along with Interpol, tracked down the suspect and found out that he had entered Thailand. Quickly, they requested local authorities to take him into custody. <strong>Prosecutors and investigators were dispatched to the country to coordinate the extradition back to South Korea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS\u2019 Jungkook is back in the worldwide headlines after a Chinese hacking group attempted to steal $6.03 million worth of shares in HYBE. The news caused a commotion among the K-Netizens and the fans, after they discovered the illegal group was using an account registered under BTS member Jungkook. On August 22, the 34-year-old Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":147245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49,933],"class_list":{"0":"post-147244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-jungkook"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147244","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\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}