Seoul, Jan 26 || Personal information from more than 30 million Coupang customers is believed to have been leaked, a top police official said on Monday, leaving open the possibility that the detention of the company's interim CEO, Harold Rogers, who has ignored two police summonses, will be sought.
Park Jeong-bo, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, made the remarks, refuting Coupang's own conclusion that the scope of the data leak was only 3,000 cases, reports news agency.
"It is not yet confirmed how much data has been leaked, but we believe that data from more than 30 million accounts have been stolen," Park said in a media briefing.
He said it is necessary to check whether Coupang had intended to downplay the scope of its data breach.
Coupang announced the results of its own probe Dec. 25, stating that a former employee of Chinese nationality stole personal information from 33 million users but only saved the data of 3,000 individuals.