ChainCatcher news, a woman in her 40s was arrested by the police for stealing another person's phone and misappropriating approximately 700 million Korean won worth of virtual currency.
The suspect stole the phone of a man she met in a public social networking (SNS) chat room in Jeju City, and then used personal information obtained in advance to transfer the virtual currency to her own account. The police launched an investigation following a report from the victim and successfully apprehended the suspect in an emergency in Gumi City, North Gyeongsang Province. The suspect confessed that she planned the crime to repay her debts.