Overview
- Seoul police returned to Coupang’s Songpa headquarters for a third consecutive day to seize more records and examine possible security weaknesses in customer data systems.
- Search warrants identify a former Chinese-national employee as a suspect; police say they have the IP addresses used in the intrusion and are tracing the suspect’s digital trail.
- Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigned and was replaced by Harold Rogers, the U.S. parent’s chief administrative officer and general counsel, as interim chief.
- The company says the leak, likely starting June 24 via overseas servers, exposed names, emails, phone numbers, shipping addresses and some order histories, not payment data or passwords.
- Regulatory and legal fallout is building, with Korea’s privacy watchdog ordering terms-of-service changes and easier cancellations, phishing reports rising, hundreds of thousands of lawsuits filed, U.S. class-action preparations, and a National Assembly hearing set for Dec. 17.