Korea launches government-wide probe into Coupang data breach

South Korea’s government is mobilizing an all-hands response to a data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang affecting more than 33 million users, establishing an interagency task force to address the fallout. At a ministerial meeting at the Seoul Government Complex on Thursday, Science and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon raised the massive breach as an emergency agenda item requiring coordinated action by relevant ministries. “Coupang’s customer data breach has heightened public anxiety, and several i