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   Investigators raid Coupanq HQ following data breach affecting 34 million   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:10:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   The police want to better understand the case and some documents were   
   allegedly confiscated.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   The police have raided the offices of South Koreas biggest ecommerce store,   
   Coupang, as it investigates one of the largest data breaches in the countrys   
   recent history.    
      
   In the final days of November, Coupang confirmed suffering a cyberattack and   
   losing personally identifiable information (PII) of 34 million customers. As   
   per the companys CEO, the attack started in June 2025, and it wasnt spotted   
   for almost half a year.    
      
   During that time, the attacker exfiltrated peoples names, emails, phone   
   numbers, shipping addresses, and specific order information, putting them at   
   serious risk of identity theft and fraud.    
      
   Initial reports state that the data theft was carried out by a former    
   employee at Coupang, also a Chinese national. Allegedly, the employees    
   account wasn't terminated even after they left the company, and this access   
   was later used for data exfiltration.    
      
   Now, the police are involved, sending 17 investigators to conduct a search    
   and seizure at the companys Songpa-gu offices. As per the local media, this   
   search and seizure is an essential measure to accurately understand the case,   
   and to comprehensively investigate the overall facts of the case, including   
   the leaker of personal information, the route of the leak, and the cause.    
      
   Local media is also saying that some evidence was confiscated including   
   internal documents and server logs.    
      
   Coupang will do its best to prevent further damage in close cooperation with   
   the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Personal Information Protection   
   Commission, the Korea Internet & Security Agency, the National Police Agency,   
   and other public-private joint investigation teams, Coupang CEO Park Dae-joon   
   said in a letter published after the breach.    
      
   Coupang is the biggest ecommerce store in the country, often nicknamed Amazon   
   of South Korea. Alongside this investigation, Reuters reports that more than   
   10,000 people have already expressed interest in joining a class-action   
   lawsuit against the retailer, which could see them paid $68 per person for   
   their loss.    
      
    Via Cybernews    
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/investigators-raid-coupanq-hq-following   
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