Latest Data Leak News & Updates

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, Dec 31 (IANS) The National Assembly is set to make a decision on Wednesday that would file a complaint against the interim chief of Coupang’s Korean unit over alleged perjury amid a parliamentary hearing into the online retailer’s massive data leak that affected nearly two-thirds of South Korea’s population.The move comes a day after Harold Rogers, interim CEO of Coupang Corp., the online retailer’s Korean unit, claimed that the company conducted an internal probe into the massive data le…