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Coupang data breach affecting virtually every user draws apology from CEO
A major vulnerability in the database of popular online shopping platform Coupang allowed an intruder to access the personal information of more than 30 million users without a valid login, with CEO Park Dae-joon offering an apology to the public.

Südkorea: Bei Onlinehändler Daten zu zwei Dritteln der Bevölkerung abgegriffen
Ein inzwischen nicht mehr Coupang arbeitender Angestellter soll bei Südkoreas größtem Onlinehändler Daten zur gesamten Kundschaft abgegriffen haben.

South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; the country has a population of 51.7M (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-30/cou…

Sounds like the Coupang data breach was an insider job.
A former Coupang employee is believed to have stolen personal data after leaving the company by exploiting security vulnerabilities tied to server-side authentication keys and access tokens.
https://www.theinvestor.co.kr/article/1062

Coupang breach tied to ex-employee using unrevoked access - THE INVESTOR
A former Coupang employee is believed to have stolen personal data after leaving the company by exploiting security vulnerabilities tied to server-side authenti

To absent friends
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Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80 countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/28/formalize-raises-eur30m-to-a…

Formalize raises €30M to advance compliance solutions across Europe
Copenhagen-based Formalize has raised €30 million in a Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech, with participation from West Hill Capital and CIBC Innovation Banking. The company has raised €50 million to date.Across Europe, organisations face an increasingly complex, interconnected regulatory landscape, with evolving rules reshaping expectations for information security, resilience, and reporting across industries and regions. Formalize, addresses this with a single platform…

Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth (Fumie Yaku/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

China edges up with 3 of world's top 20 chipmaking gear suppliers
Local production shift fueled by US curbs puts AMEC, SMEE on list alongside Naura

Korea is intense in its reaction to the Coupang breach.
Coupang CEO Harold Rogers appeared before the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency as a suspect in a criminal investigation into whether the e-commerce company obstructed a government probe through an internal review of a large-scale data breach.
https://m.koreaherald.co…

Coupang CEO questioned in first police appearance over data breach - The Korea Herald
Coupang CEO Harold Rogers appeared before police Friday as a suspect in an investigation into whether the e-commerce company obstructed a government probe throu

Does tossing a laptop in the river destroy evidence?
The Coupang hacker allegedly disposed of the laptop used in the breach by throwing it into a river.
https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/hacker-…

Hacker Disposes of Coupang Data Breach Laptop in River, initiating $1.2 Billion as compensation
AI is evolving at a rapid pace, and the uptake of Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionising the way humans interact and leverage this technology. GenAI is

Metacurity is back from a Thanksgiving holiday break with an extensive run-down of the critical cybersecurity developments since last Monday, including
--Some ChatGPT customer data was exposed by a breach at vendor Mixpanel,
--Lazarus Group suspected of $30.6m breach of Upbit,
--Korea's shopping platform Coupang hacked by a former insider to access 30m customers' data,
--Lazarus Group and Kimsuky are DPRK's most prolific hackers,
--Korea arrests four …

Some ChatGPT customers' data were exposed by a breach at vendor Mixpanel
Lazarus Group suspected of $30.6m breach of Upbit, Korea's shopping platform Coupang hacked by a former insider to access 30m customers' data, Lazarus Group and Kimsuky are DPRK's most prolific hackers, Korea arrests four for hacking 120K IP cameras, OnSolve CodeRED platform hit by attack, much more