Police are tracking a suspect accused of leaking the personal information of 33.7 million Coupang customers.
An official at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said at a regular press briefing on the 1st, "We have received server log records from Coupang and are analyzing them," and "We have secured the internet protocol (IP) used by the suspect in the crime and are tracking it." Police are also conducting international cooperation to trace the IP.
Police are checking the suspect's nationality, whether the suspect left the country after leaving Coupang, and whether the suspect is the same person who sent a threatening email saying the suspect would inform Coupang of the personal information leak.
In particular, the threatening emails were sent to some customers on the 16th and to the Coupang customer center on the 25th and 28th of the same month. Because the email accounts sent to the customers and to the Coupang customer center were different, police are also investigating those accounts.
On the 25th, Coupang filed a complaint asking for an investigation into an "unidentified person" on suspicion of intrusion into an information and communications network and launched a formal investigation. On the 28th, police conducted questioning of the complainant.