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Streaming service Tving confirms third party user data leak

Personal information of users of the Korean streaming platform Tving has been leaked in a data breach, the streaming platform said on Wednesday.

2026.6.3

Coupang's headquarters in Songpa District, southern Seoul is seen on Jan. 29. [NEWS1]

Coupang admits to further data leak involving 165,000 user accounts

Coupang confirmed an additional personal information leak on Thursday involving around 165,000 user accounts.

2026.2.5

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A person walks by a Coupang delivery truck in Seoul on Dec. 28. [YONHAP]

Coupang offers $35 vouchers, but users miffed as only $7 is usable for main platform or food

Coupang announced Monday it will compensate each customer affected by its recent massive data breach with vouchers worth 50,000 won ($35), following criticism over the company’s response to the incident.

2025.12.29

Police officials carry boxes after completing a raid at Coupang's headquarters in southern Seoul in this file photo taken Dec. 9, as part of a probe into the e-commerce operator's personal data breach. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Gov't launches task force for Coupang data breach probe

Korea launched an interagency task force on Tuesday to carry out an investigation into the recent data breach at U.S. e-commerce giant Coupang that affected 33.7 million users.

2025.12.23

A Shinhan Card office in Seoul is seen in this file photo [JOONGANG ILBO]

Data of 192,000 Shinhan partnered merchants leaked

The personal information of 192,000 Shinhan partnered merchants, mostly phone numbers, was leaked, the financial company told customers on Tuesday.

2025.12.23

Yun In-su, professor at KAIST, poses during an interview with the JoongAng Sunday at the university in Daejeon on Nov. 25. [JOONGANG ILBO]

Cybersecurity in 'turbulent transition period' as AI changes game, KAIST professor says

The rising wave of hacking attacks in the era of advancing AI isn't a coincidence but evidence of a balance that has been broken — says "white hat hacker" turned KAIST professor, Yun In-su.

2025.12.10

Vehicles are seen at a Coupang logistics center in Seoul on Aug. 6. [YONHAP]

Alarm grows over Coupang data breach that went undetected for 5 months

Anxiety and frustration are mounting following a massive data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang that local observers noted Sunday may have been ongoing for months.

2025.11.30

Coupang trucks are seen at a parking lot in Seoul on Nov. 21. The e-commerce company reported a data breach to personal information of around 4,500 customers on Nov. 20. [YONHAP]

Coupang fails to detect data breach affecting over 4,500 customers for 12 days

Coupang failed to detect a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 4,500 customers for over 10 days, records showed Friday.

2025.11.21

A KT service store is seen in downtown Seoul on Sept. 10. [YONHAP]

KT customers hit with unauthorized transactions of nearly 1 million won in hacking attack

Hackers charged KT customers a total of nearly 1 million won ($708) in single unauthorized transactions after stealing personal data from the telecom company’s servers, lawmakers said Wednesday.

2025.9.24

Executives at KT answer questions from reporters regarding the recent hacking incident during a press conference held at the KT office in Gwanghwamun, Jongno District, central Seoul, on Sept. 11. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

KT confirms another hack mere weeks after micro-payment scam

Amid a wave of cyberattacks targeting Korean telecom companies, KT confirmed again on Friday that one of its servers has been hacked, just weeks after the company became embroiled in a scandal involving unauthorized microtransactions.

2025.9.19