Top South Korean ecommerce firm Coupang apologises over massive data breach
By
Binu Mathew
South Korea’s biggest online retailer, Coupang, apologised on Sunday over the breach of personal information from 33.7 million customer accounts through unauthorized data access.
“We sincerely apologise once again for causing our customers inconvenience,” Park Dae-jun, CEO of the firm dubbed the Amazon.com of South Korea, posted on its website.
The incident is the latest in a series of data leaks at major South Korean companies, including SK Telecom.
