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South Korea's Coupang issues apology for leak of users' personal information

By Jenny Lee
  • 27 Oct 2021 04:55
  • 27 Oct 2021 04:55
South Korean e-comerce giant Coupang today issued an apology for the leak of personal details of some of its users following a statement from South Korea’s privacy regulator that it was looking into the incident.

Coupang published a statement on its website saying users’ data, including names and addresses, were exposed

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Jenny Lee

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Jenny joined MLex’s Seoul bureau in 2021 as a correspondent focusing on competition law and data privacy and security. Jenny received a Master’s degree from Northwestern University’s renowned Medill School of Journalism and worked for a number of news organizations in the US, including the Associated Press Television News, McClatchy and Voice of America, where she worked for almost three years in Washington DC. She returned to her native South Korea in 2019 as a reporter for Wired Korea.

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