South Korea's Coupang suffers data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts

Coupang’s CEO, Park Dae-Jun has offered an apology to 33.7 million of the company’s customers who had their accounts compromised in a recent breach. South Korea’s largest online retailer Coupang suffered a data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts, exposing names, phone numbers, email addresses, shipping addresses, and order histories. Coupang is currently being investigated by South Korean regulators to determine whether the company had any fault in the breach. Coupang confirms 33.7 million breached accounts South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang confirmed that the personal information from 33.7 million customer accounts was compromised through unauthorized access. The breach affects nearly two-thirds of South Korea’s total population. “We sincerely apologise once again for causing our customers inconvenience” Coupang’s CEO Park Dae-jun said in a statement posted on the company’s website. The company discovered the breach on November 18 and initially reported that approximately 4,500 customer accounts were affected. However, subsequent investigations...

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