South Korean police raid e-commerce giant Coupang's office after large data breach

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South Korean police raided Coupang's headquarters in Seoul on Tuesday (Dec 9) after the e-commerce firm suffered the country's worst data breach in years.  The personal data of more than 33 million customers were leaked in a breach believed to have started on June 24 through overseas servers, though the company did not learn of the problem until Nov 18.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00South Korean police raided Kupang's headquarters in Seoul on Tuesday, after the e-commerce

00:05giant suffered the country's worst data breach in years.

00:09The personal data of more than 33 million customers were leaked in a breach believed

00:14to have started on June 24 through overseas servers, though the company did not learn

00:19of the problem until November 18.

00:22Kupang, which is backed by Japan's SoftBank Group, has said the breach exposed customers'

00:28terms, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses and certain order histories, but

00:33not payment details or login credentials.

00:36Its CEO Park Dae-jeon resigned, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that

00:42it will work to restore customer trust and tighten security measures to prevent another data leak.

00:48Park's resignation was announced after South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-si-ok said the

00:52government will launch a thorough investigation and take stern action against any legal

00:57violations committed by Kupang.

01:00The company, whose services are ubiquitous for many Koreans using its rocket-fast deliveries,

01:06has said it had 24.7 million active commercial users in the third quarter.

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