Police investigating Coupang's massive personal data leak will carry out searches and seizures for a second straight day.
According to police on the 10th, the task force for the Coupang case (Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Cyber Crime Investigation Unit) plans to send investigators to Coupang's headquarters in Songpa-gu, Seoul, to execute a search and seizure warrant. The day before, they also conducted a search and seizure for about 10 hours from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Because the period during which personal information was leaked at Coupang was long and the materials to be secured are extensive, the search and seizure may continue for an extended period. A government probe found there were personal information leak attacks at Coupang from June 24 to Nov. 8. A police official said they would continue "until the purpose of the search and seizure is achieved."
In the search warrant, police identified as a suspect a former Coupang employee of Chinese nationality. The person is accused of intruding into an information and communications network and leaking secrets. The person handled authentication duties at Coupang and is known to have already left the country.