E-Commerce Firm Coupang Faces Massive Fine After Data Breach

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South Korean e-commerce platform Coupang is under intense scrutiny after confirming a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of 33.7 million users.

The incident, which Coupang acknowledged on Saturday (Nov. 29), is now considered the largest data leak ever recorded in South Korea.

According to the company and a report in The Korea Times, compromised data includes names, email addresses, and information contained in delivery address books, such as phone numbers and detailed street addresses. Some order histories were also exposed. Coupang has not yet disclosed the origin of the breach or whether the exposed information has been misused.

The scale of the leak has sparked widespread concern, given Coupang’s extensive user ...