Seoul, Dec 28 (IANS) The founder of e-commerce giant Coupang, Kim Bom-suk, on Sunday apologised for a massive data breach, marking his first formal apology since the leak of personal information that affected nearly two-thirds of the population in South Korea.”As the founder and the chairman of the board, I sincerely apologise on behalf of all the employees at Coupang,” Kim was quoted as saying in a written statement issued by the company, reports Yonhap news agency.”I have caused huge frustrati…
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Seoul, Dec 27 (IANS) Shinsegae I&C, the information technology (IT) arm of retail giant Shinsegae Group, said the personal data of about 80,000 employees and subcontractors had been breached, but no customer information was compromised.”We have confirmed that personal data of our employees and staff working at our subcontractors has been leaked from our internal intranet system,” the IT company said in a notice to the press about a data breach case.The affected information includes corporate…
Seoul, Dec 25 (IANS) E-commerce giant Coupang said on Thursday it has recovered all leaked personal information involving approximately 3,000 customers, adding that no data has been transferred to anyone outside the company.In a press release, Coupang said it has identified a former employee responsible for the data leak by using forensic evidence, adding that the individual confessed and provided a detailed account of how customer information was accessed, reports Yonhap news agency.The suspect…
Seoul, Dec 23 (IANS) South Korea on Tuesday launched an interagency task force (TF) to carry out an investigation into the recent data breach at US e-commerce giant Coupang that affected 33.7 million users.The new TF, comprising officials from the science and labor ministries, along with the media watchdog, financial authorities, the police and the spy agency, held its first meeting on the day to investigate facts behind the breach, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.The task force wil…