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Coupang fined record 624.7 billion won over massive data breach, unauthorized data collection<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-11 05:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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South Korean regulators fined e-commerce giant Coupang a record 624.7 billion won (US$410 million) over privacy violations Thursday. This photo, taken Thursday, shows Coupang headquarters in Seoul. Photo by Yonhap<\/p>\n

South Korea’s data protection regulator on Thursday fined e-commerce company Coupang Corp. a record 624.7 billion won (US$410 million) over privacy violations, including a massive data breach that affected more than 37 million users.<\/p>\n

The Personal Information Protection Commission has decided to impose a record fine of 423.6 billion won for the data breach and levy an additional 201.1 billion-won fine for the unauthorized collection of records of online user activities and other violations.\n<\/p>\n

It marked the largest fine ever imposed by the regulator on a single company, according to the commission.<\/p>\n

“The investigation found that this incident happened not by sophisticated hacking, but due to Coupang’s inadequate safety management system,” Song Kyung-hee, the watchdog’s chief, said in a briefing.<\/p>\n

Coupang expressed regret over the record fine imposed, adding that it plans to “clarify the facts through legal procedures.”\n<\/p>\n

The punitive measures come more than six months after Coupang belatedly reported a large-scale data breach last November of personal information of users in South Korea, including their names, phone numbers and delivery details.<\/p>\n

The regulator concluded that a hacker behind the breach accessed personal information of about 37.5 million users — 33.2 million Coupang members and 4.3 million others, according to Song.<\/p>\n

The figure is sharply higher than the 33.67 million accounts earlier determined by a joint private-public probe to have been affected.<\/p>\n

The watchdog added that it decided to file a complaint against Coupang for actions that obstructed the investigation.<\/p>\n

The penalty for Coupang’s data breach is over three times higher than the regulator’s previous record fine of 134.8 billion won imposed in August 2025 against mobile carrier…<\/p>\n

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