ILLIT’s company has warned of sturdy authorized motion for invasion of privateness.
On January 9, ILLIT’s company BELIFT LAB posted the next official assertion on Weverse:
Howdy, that is BELIFT LAB.
As acts of illegally acquiring ILLIT members’ private data and threatening their security have just lately gone too far, we want to current BELIFT LAB’s place on this matter.
After ILLIT accomplished official abroad actions, a critical invasion of privateness occurred involving some members who had been tending to private scheduled actions earlier than returning to Korea. Having recognized upfront indicators that their return data had been leaked, we modified the departure airport and flight time instantly previous to their return to safe our artists’ security. Nonetheless, a number of people had already obtained the artists’ ticket particulars and pursued them to the modified airport. They not solely tried to method the artists and begin conversations however even criticized their carrying of masks and demanded to take photographs in opposition to their will, thereby threatening the members. We view this matter with utmost seriousness, particularly provided that the modified ticket data was confidential—identified solely to the artists themselves and a really small variety of associated personnel—but was leaked in actual time.
We’ve repeatedly made clear that unlawfully buying our artists’ private data and exhibiting up at nonpublic scheduled actions is a really significant issue and that we’re pursuing authorized motion. Nevertheless, seeing incidents escalate to the purpose of monitoring artists’ private schedules in actual time, showing on-site, making an attempt contact, and making threats, we have now decided this has reached a stage we are able to not tolerate. Accordingly, we have now requested the lively cooperation of the related airline to confirm entry histories and log data. As well as, we’re constantly amassing proof in opposition to these partaking in stalking behaviors that threaten our artists, and we state unequivocally that we’ll maintain them strictly liable below the regulation with a zero-tolerance coverage, with none settlements or leniency.
We’ll proceed to do our utmost to make sure our artists can deal with their actions in a secure setting. Specifically, we reiterate that we’ll spare no means or strategies to guard them from stalking, and we ask for followers’ lively experiences and cooperation.
Thanks.
