SecurityWeek provides an update on the Coupang breach:
Coupang, the South Korean ecommerce giant listed in the US (NYSE: CPNG), on Monday announced plans to spend 1.685 trillion won (~$1.17 billion) in compensation over a recent data breach.
The incident, the company said in early December, was discovered on November 18, and involved unauthorized access to customers’ personal information via overseas servers.
Coupang told SecurityWeek that the data breach started on June 24, 2025, and that 33.7 million customer accounts in Korea were affected.
On December 15, the company notified the Securities and Exchange Commission that a former employee was responsible for the incident.
The individual, the company said, “obtained the name, phone number, delivery address, and email address associated with up to 33 million customer accounts, and certain order histories for a subset of the impacted accounts.”
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