Top South Korean e-commerce firm Coupang says 33.7 million customer accounts breached

South Korean e-commerce elephantine Coupang said idiosyncratic accusation from 33.7 cardinal of its lawsuit accounts was exposed via unauthorized information access.

Coupang, dubbed the Amazon.com of South Korea, is the country's apical online retailer with its services ubiquitous for galore Koreans utilizing its "Rocket" accelerated deliveries.

"Subsequent probe has revealed that the grade of lawsuit relationship vulnerability is astir 33.7 cardinal accounts, each successful Korea," the institution said successful a connection connected Saturday, adding that it became alert of the information breach connected November 18 and reported the lawsuit to authorities.

Its merchandise commerce progressive customers reached 24.7 cardinal successful the 3rd quarter, the institution announced earlier.

The lawsuit is the latest successful a bid of information leaks astatine large South Korean companies specified as SK Telecom.

A erstwhile Chinese worker astatine Coupang is suspected to beryllium down the breach but that ex-worker has near the country, Yonhap News Agency reported connected Sunday, without citing sources.

Coupang sent a ailment to constabulary this month, truthful constabulary are conducting an investigation, Yonhap said.

Coupang was not instantly reachable for remark connected the study extracurricular concern hours.

The exposed information is constricted to names, email addresses, telephone numbers, shipping addresses, and definite bid histories, but does not see outgo details oregon login credentials, the steadfast said.

The unauthorised entree to idiosyncratic accusation was believed to person started connected June 24 done overseas servers, Coupang said.

The probe is inactive nether mode and the institution continues to enactment with instrumentality enforcement and regulatory authorities, the institution added.