Oliver Conway

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.

Some of these hacks are pointed at North Koreans.

And another aspect here is that Coupang, although it makes most of its money in South Korea, it is registered in the U.S.

and they're listed in New York City.

And a lot of South Korean people, media especially, has been very critical.

that Coupang has been making a lot of money and perhaps they did not put enough effort and care to protect data.

And this is why the president, he asked the government to look into raising the fine against companies that had mishandled data.

Jake Kwan in South Korea.