Coupang Data Breach Exposes 33.7 Million Customer Accounts
South Korea's largest e-commerce platform, Coupang, disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information of approximately 33.7 million user accounts.
Key points
- Initial disclosure on November 29, 2025, with a broader admission on November 30, 2025.
- Approximately 33.7 million customer accounts affected.
- Exposed data includes names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, and order histories.
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Organization
- Published
- Nov 30, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 25, 2026
- Confidence
- Medium
- Evidence
- 1 source
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Threat source
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- Source type: possible insider or internal misuse
Business impact
- Impact area
- Confidentiality
- Likely asset
- User or customer data
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What happened in this signal?
South Korea's largest e-commerce platform, Coupang, disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information of approximately 33.7 million user accounts. The breach, attributed to a former employee who exploited unrevoked authentication keys, involved names, email and postal addresses, phone numbers, and order histories. No financial information or passwords were compromised. The incident led to a record fine from the Korean Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) and an investigation by South Korean authorities. Coupang initially released a statement on November 29, 2025, confirming unauthorized exposure of approximately 4,500 accounts, with a broader admission of 33.7 million accounts on November 30, 2025.
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Coupang Data Breach: Authentication Failures Expose Customer Data in South Korea
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang experienced a significant data breach between April and November 2026, with an additional access attempt in January. South Korea's Deputy Minister for Cybersecurity and Network Policy publicly attributed the incident to management failures and authentication vulnerabilities during a press conference on July 24, 2026. The attacker exploited user authentication vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to accounts without proper login credentials, leading to a large-scale unauthorized information leak. South Korean authorities emphasized that the breach was not the result of highly sophisticated intrusion techniques, but rather stemmed from fundamental security weaknesses in authentication mechanisms and inadequate security management practices. The breach resulted in large-scale unauthorized access to customer information. The unauthorized access has since been terminated. This incident has also led to a record fine of $422 million by South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) and ongoing diplomatic discussions between South Korea and the U.S. due to Coupang being an American-owned company operating in South Korea.
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