Data Privacy
Coupang founder issues first in-person apology over data breach amid record sales
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U.S.-listed e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. reported record annual sales for 2025 despite a massive data breach that hurt fourth-quarter results. Founder and Chairman Bom Kim issued his first in-person apology to customers during Friday's earnings call. This follows a written apology in late December.
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South Korea's Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo met with U.S. lawmakers and officials in Washington this week to address concerns over the country's investigation into a massive data breach at Coupang, warning against the issue turning into a trade dispute between the two nations. Yeo emphasized that the probe is being conducted in line with relevant laws and should not be viewed as a trade matter. Coupang, a U.S.-listed company, experienced a leak of personal data from about 34 million customers late last year.
Google will discontinue its free dark web monitoring tool early next year, ending notifications about personal data leaks. The service, which alerts users to appearances of their name, email, or phone number on the dark web, will stop monitoring new results on January 15, 2026. Access to existing reports will be removed on February 16, 2026.
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Popular online tools for formatting code are leaking significant amounts of user information. Sites such as JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify are involved in exposing secrets that users upload voluntarily. TechRadar highlighted this security concern in a recent report.
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