Seoul, June 11 (IANS) South Korea’s data protection regulator on Thursday fined e-commerce company Coupang a record 624.7 billion won ($410 million) over privacy violations, including a massive data breach that affected more than 37 million users.The Personal Information Protection Commission has decided to impose a record fine of 423.6 billion won for the data breach and levy an additional 201.1 billion won in fine for the unauthorised collection of records of online user activities and other v…
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Seoul, Feb 5 (IANS) E-commerce giant Coupang said on Thursday it has discovered a data leak of personal information from more than 165,000 customer accounts linked to an incident it first identified in November last year.The leaked data includes names, phone numbers and addresses entered by customers on the address list for shipping, and the company has notified affected customers of the breach in line with recommendations from the state personal information protection watchdog, Coupang said.The…
Seoul, Feb 2 (IANS) A special counsel team has questioned the top executive of a Coupang Corp. affiliate over allegations of unpaid severance pay for company employees.Chung Jong-chul, CEO of Coupang Fulfillment Services (CFS), a logistics subsidiary of Coupang, appeared at the office of special counsel Ann Gweon-seob in the morning to be grilled as a suspect about the company’s severance pay dispute.Chung and his predecessor, Eom Seong-hwan, are suspected of changing the company’s employment ru…