Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Bae Kyung-hoon of the Ministry of Science and ICT said on the 30th that the scope of Coupang's personal information leak was more than 33 million cases. He rebutted Coupang's released claim that "the leaker saved customer information from only 3,000 accounts."
At a National Assembly hearing titled "Hearing to identify the realities of Coupang's breach incident and personal information leak, unfair transaction, and labor environment and to prepare measures to prevent recurrence," the deputy prime minister rebutted Coupang's claim and stated accordingly.
Earlier, Coupang said that based on its internal probe of the former employee suspected in the data leak, the leaker used a stolen security key to access basic customer information for 33 million customer accounts, and actually saved customer information (name, email, phone number, address, some order information) from about 3,000 accounts before deleting all saved information after encountering media reports about the incident, it had released.
In response, the deputy prime minister said, "I cannot agree," and added, "More than 33 million names and emails were leaked, and the Personal Information Protection Commission, the Korean National Police Agency, and a joint public-private investigative team confirmed this."
He went on, "Additionally, we view that delivery addresses and order details were also leaked," and added, "I want to express serious concern that Coupang released results in advance that were not agreed upon."