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[^2]\n\nThe leader of Samsung Electronics Co.'s largest labor union and a senior union official are under investigation on suspicion of stealing the personal information of about 100,000 company employees to create a union blacklist. [^3]\n\nSamsung Group's initial labor union leader Choi Seung-ho and other union officials were remanded to prosecutors on April 4 for allegedly violating the Personal Information Protection Act. [^4]\n\nSamsung Electronics and the union reached a tentative agreement on a wage negotiation on May 20 to end the strike, but the company and union did not submit withdrawal requests for the criminal charges. [^5]\n\nSamsung Electronics confirmed on April 10 that a list containing department names, names, employee IDs, and union membership status for dozens of employees was delivered to a specific department chat room. [^6]\n\nSamsung Electronics filed a complaint against the union official on April 16, accusing him of illegally collecting personal information of a large number of employees through the company's internal system approximately 20,000 times over about an hour. [^7]\n\nThe unidentified union official, who used to handle the company's internal systems, is suspected of unlawfully obtaining a file containing the names of more than 100,000 company employees and handing it over to the labor union. [^8]\n\nChoi Seung-ho is accused of collecting personal information of over 100,000 Samsung employees to create a list identifying union membership status ahead of a potential general strike. [^9]\n\nSamsung Electronics reported that an internal system was accessed abnormally, with one official querying employee data over 20,000 times in approximately one hour. [^10]\n\nFour other Samsung employees were remanded to prosecutors for accessing personal data of other employees, though they did not create or distribute a separate list. 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