Coupang Suffers Data Breach of 200,000 Customer Accounts in Taiwan...Compensation Coupons to Be Issued

Taiwanese members included among 33 million Korean records
Names, addresses, phone numbers, and some order histories exposed
"Sensitive data such as payment information was not leaked"
Only one account's access data confirmed as stored
Coupons worth about 46,000 won to be issued

A personal data breach has also occurred in Taiwan, one of Coupang's key markets.

On the 25th, Coupang Inc., the parent company of Coupang, issued an explanatory statement saying that approximately 200,000 of the 33 million accounts affected by the personal data breach have been confirmed as accounts based in Taiwan. When it became known last November that a former Coupang employee of Chinese nationality had leaked about 33 million Korean Coupang member records, Coupang Inc. later determined that some data of Taiwanese members had also been compromised.

The leaked information includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and some order histories. The company explained that there was no access to sensitive information such as financial or payment data, login account credentials, or government-issued IDs.

Coupang Inc. stated, "This fact was newly confirmed by the forensic investigation conducted by Mandiant, a global cybersecurity specialist," and added, "The former employee stored data from only one of the leaked Taiwanese member accounts." The account information was later deleted, and there is currently no evidence of transfer to any third party.

Coupang Inc.'s Taiwanese subsidiary plans to provide coupons worth 1,000 New Taiwan dollars (about 46,000 won) per affected member as compensation for the data breach, the same as in Korea.