Overview
- Harold Rogers appeared at Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Jan. 30 as a suspect in an obstruction and evidence-destruction investigation tied to Coupang’s data breach.
- Rogers was questioned for roughly 12 hours and left at 2:22 a.m., declining to say whether he admitted the allegations or planned to depart the country, and further questioning remains possible.
- Investigators are probing Coupang’s handling of a laptop recovered in China from a former employee, including undisclosed internal forensic analysis and private contact with the suspect.
- Coupang’s internal review concluded about 3,000 user records were taken, while police and government investigators say the breach likely reached around 30–33 million accounts and have criticized the company’s findings.
- Rogers previously left Korea after a parliamentary hearing and missed two summonses, and he faces separate accusations over his testimony linking the internal probe to the National Intelligence Service, which the agency has denied.