According to materials the Korea Gas Safety Corp. submitted on Aug. 8 to Rep. Choi Soo-jin of the People Power Party, a member of the National Assembly's Trade, Industry, Energy, SMEs and Startups Committee, an employee identified as A, a Grade 5 staffer in the corporation's Digital Innovation Office, viewed 30 internal documents on two occasions — Aug. 17 and Sept. 17-18 last year. Most were confidential documents containing personal information on both whistleblowers and those reported, including K-Whistle public interest reports, audit tips, grievance committee results, personnel committee deliberations and unfair dismissal remedy applications. A also changed the passwords of executive accounts several times to numbers of his own choosing, the materials showed.
An official at Choi's office said, "There are strong indications this cannot be seen as incidental curiosity, such as switching accounts at one-month intervals to repeatedly view the same whistleblower documents," adding, "There is a possibility he was trying to check or cover up misconduct involving himself."
The problem is that it took the corporation nearly three months to detect the breach. A was working from home from July 17 to Sept. 8 and on annual and sick leave from Sept. 9 to Nov. 10, yet accessed the materials using a PC inside the company building late at night, around midnight. Only after A showed irregular attendance patterns — reporting to work for a single day on Nov. 11 before taking sick leave...
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