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Coupang’s headquarters in Seoul. (Ryu Woo-jong/Hankyoreh)
Korean police investigating the leak of shoppers’ private data at Coupang, the nation’s main on-line retailer, stated the information breach affected greater than 30 million consumer accounts. In impact, the police plan to use prison costs to the leak of all 30 million accounts, and never simply the three,000 accounts talked about within the findings of Coupang’s inner probe.
“We’ve practically wrapped up our investigation into the leak of private data [at Coupang]. Whereas we haven’t formally closed the investigation, [information was leaked] from round 30 million accounts,” stated Park Jeong-bo, the chief of the Seoul Metropolitan Police, in a press briefing on Monday.
That means that the leak affected nearly all of Coupang customers. The police consider the leak coated a variety of private data from the compromised accounts, together with names, supply addresses and electronic mail addresses.
There’s a enormous hole between the police assertion and the findings of Coupang’s inner investigation, which concluded that data had solely been leaked from 3,000 accounts.
Coupang’s declare concerning the variety of accounts was based mostly on the private data really saved on the pc of the previous Chinese language worker, who has been named as a suspect within the case. However the police consider the prison costs at Coupang also needs to cowl data leaked on cloud servers.
When requested whether or not the police suppose that Coupang made a false declare, Park stated, “That’s what we predict. We’ll must look into whether or not they meant to downplay this.”
The remaining job for the 86-person job power that’s conducting the police investigation beneath Choi Jong-sang is to query the suspect.
“The size of the leak has been decided, and what’s left is interrogating the suspect. Because the suspect is a international nationwide, we are able to’t simply name them in. However we’re working by way of varied channels to extradite the suspect for questioning,” Park stated.
Along with the leak of private data, the police are investigating Coupang over its launch of the interior probe findings and over the loss of life of a younger logistics middle worker named Jang Deok-jun, who’s suspected to have died from overwork.
In reference to Coupang’s unilateral launch of its inner probe findings, interim Coupang CEO Harold Rogers has left the nation, apparently to keep away from being questioned by the police about alleged proof tampering.
“The police have notified Rogers thrice that he should seem for questioning,” Park stated, including that if Rogers refuses to seem, the police would take the suitable measures — which could embody requesting an arrest warrant.
By Bang Jun-ho, workers reporter
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