Weverse Breach: Why Fans Are Rethinking ID Uploads Online

Someone in a Weverse fansign lottery thread put it bluntly last week: “I gave them my passport photo for a chance to wave at Karina for four seconds.” That’s the trade a lot of fans didn’t think too hard about until HYBE confirmed that a breach on its Weverse platform had exposed data tied to roughly 420,000 accounts. CEO Yang Joo-il issued a public apology within days. That’s not a small incident. That’s nearly half a million people who uploaded…