Oliver Conway

This is where most South Korean people do their online shopping.

I mean, I use them almost weekly.

And we all got a text one day saying that, I'm sorry, there has been a data breach and they're investigating what's going on.

And since then, the police and the authorities have formed a team trying to get to the bottom of what had happened here.

And what we learned today is that around 17 officers had raided the Seoul office of Kupang, searching and seizing evidence.

So this may be hardware, servers, etc.

To see how a hacker was able to access these very sensitive customer data, which includes names, phone numbers, home addresses, etc.

as well as shopping history.

Many people also have put their home doorpad code, so that was also exposed.

Now, the president has called for swift action to punish those responsible.

Do we know who might be behind it?

According to local media, Kupang has told the police and the authority that

They suspect a former employee, a Chinese national who had since quit the company and has left the country as well, that this person was still holding on to what is essentially a key that could still access Coupang servers.

And that this person has been accessing Coupang servers since June this year, and Coupang had only learned about it last month.

And this is why the leak is so large.

We're understanding about 33.7%.

million customer IDs.

It really feels like every few days there has been a hack of South Korean companies.

Just this year, South Korea's biggest mobile operator was fined $100 million when a hacker compromised very sensitive data on around 20 million users.

And a lot of this is pointed towards global hacking groups.