Child Rights Solidarity and EARS presented evidence to the Jongno police station and asked them to investigate the MOHW for:

1. Dereliction of Duty
2. Breach of Trust in the Course of Business
3. Violations of the Personal Information Protection Act

This complaint aims to request a broad investigation into the NCRC’s digitization of ‘child cards’ starting in 2019.

According to the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission’s investigation, the NCRC lost a hard drive containing approximately 30,000 sensitive records.

What was compromised:

• Child cards are documents made when a lost child is found or when a child enters a facility for the first time.
  • Child cards contain personal information, physical characteristics, and circumstances of missing children.
• This information was supposed to be destroyed or returned after the project was completed, however, the information was kept with an independent contractor for about 4 years.
• The NCRC internal audit estimated approximately 300 million won was lost to incomplete tasks and substandard performance. The MOHW’s audit reduced this estimate to merely 58 million won.

Press Coverage

• [Yonhap News] Child Rights Solidarity holds press conference in front of Jongno Police Station
• [Yonhap News] Child Rights Solidarity Files Complaint Against the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Agency for the Protection of Children’s Rights”
• [E Daily] “Why was information on missing children shared with a private company?”… Ministry of Health and Welfare and others sued for “negligent management”