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[Alpha Biz= Reporter Lee Joonhyun] South Korean police have carried out a second consecutive day of raids on Coupang following a massive data breach that exposed personal information from 33.7 million customer accounts.
The Cyber Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said it dispatched investigators to Coupang’s headquarters in Songpa-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the 10th to execute a search and seizure warrant.
This follows a raid conducted at the same location the previous day, marking two days of intensified efforts to secure evidence.
According to the warrant, a former Coupang employee identified as “A,” a Chinese national, has been named as a suspect. A previously handled authentication system development at the company and is being investigated for violations of the Information and Communications Network Act, including unauthorized access and leakage of confidential information.
Coupang announced on November 29 that approximately 33.7 million customer accounts had been compromised. The leaked data is believed to include customer names, email addresses, delivery address books, certain order information, and even shared entrance door passwords.
Police plan to analyze server logs, internal access records, and other digital evidence obtained through the raids to determine the exact cause and pathway of the data breach.
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