Overview
- Seoul police returned to Coupang’s Songpa headquarters on Thursday for a third consecutive search, following two 10-hour raids earlier in the week.
- The search warrant identifies a former Chinese-national employee as a suspect, with investigators saying they secured IP addresses used in the leak and are probing potential system vulnerabilities.
- Coupang reports that exposed data includes names, emails, phone numbers, delivery addresses and some order histories, while payment details and login credentials were not compromised.
- CEO Park Dae-jun resigned, and the U.S. parent appointed Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel Harold Rogers as interim chief to steer the response.
- Regulatory and legal pressure is mounting, with a National Assembly hearing set for Dec. 17, U.S. class-action preparations under way, and more than 200 phishing reports tied to the breach logged in recent days.