Overview
- Police are conducting a forensic review of a laptop that Coupang submitted, seeking to confirm the device’s link to the suspect, its role in the breach, and any signs of tampering.
- Coupang says a former employee used a stolen internal key to access data tied to roughly 33 million accounts, saved information from about 3,000 customers, then deleted it without sharing it externally.
- The company reports that recovered devices include a hard drive and that accessed data covered names, contact details, addresses, limited order information, and apartment entrance codes for 2,609 accounts, not payment data or logins.
- The Ministry of Science and ICT called Coupang’s announcement a unilateral claim and said the private–public joint team has not verified the company’s findings on the scale, contents, or handling of the breach.
- The presidential office held an emergency ministerial meeting led by the policy chief, drawing the science minister, the privacy regulator, investigative agencies, the foreign minister, the National Security Office, and the National Intelligence Service.