Anchor: The government has launched a joint investigation into a massive Coupang data breach that may have exposed as many as 34 million customer accounts. While authorities are assessing the scale of the breach, including the cause and how access was gained, they are also looking into a former Coupang employee whom some believe is a suspect.
Rosyn Park reports.

Report: The unprecedented data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang has exposed the personal data of 33-point-seven million customers, or three out of every four adults in South Korea.

The government has launched a joint public-private investigation team to look into the incident. Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon said the group will also check for security lapses on Coupang’s part.

Coupang reported the breach to police last week and has identified a Chinese former employee as a suspect.

The company said there was evidence that the former employee had been accessing personal information via overseas servers since June.

Police are tracking the former employee, who industry sources say has left South Korea, and have already secured the suspect's server logs and IP address.

They said they're also tracking an anonymous actor who recently sent a threatening email to Coupang, claiming they had the company's customer data and would release it to the media unless the firm strengthened its security.

While investigations are ongoing, authorities have not yet ruled out the possibility that Coupang was targeted in an external hack.
Rosyn Park, KBS World Radio News.