Chinese ex-worker ‘key’ to South Korea’s worst data breach in decade

Police in South Korea are investigating one of the country’s worst data breaches in a decade at its largest e-commerce platform, and their key suspect could be a former Chinese employee who worked at the company.

The personal data of 33.7 million customers was leaked in the months-long breach at the country’s e-commerce giant Coupang, which said exposed information included users’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses and certain order histories. Payment details or login credentials were not exposed, it said.

Coupang has previously said it has 34 million monthly active users, meaning the breach exposed records of almost its entire user base, The Korea Herald reported. That would make this leak one of the largest e-commerce data breaches in Korean history, it added.

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