Interested in class action lawsuit for Coupang personal information leak victims

Coupang users, who suffered a large-scale personal information leak, filed a lawsuit against Coupang.

As class action lawsuits have begun in the United States as well as in Korea, they are receiving a lot of attention.

Reporter Gil Jae-seop reported from Seoul.


The domestic law firm that first filed a criminal complaint against Coupang initiated a domestic civil lawsuit and a punitive damages lawsuit in the United States.

There is a significant difference between class action lawsuits in the United States and domestic lawsuits in terms of the amount of compensation.

{Kook-il Kim/Representative of Daeryun Law Firm/For personal information leaks due to gross negligence, the amount of compensation can be increased exponentially in a punitive manner. Damage compensation amounts range from hundreds of billions of dollars to several trillions.}

The domestic public-private joint investigation team announced that Coupang's personal information was leaked at 33.67 million cases.

However, it was revealed that the delivery address list page, which included personal information of family members and acquaintances and common entrance passwords, was also viewed 148 million times, so the scale of the leak could be larger.

{Choi Woo-hyuk/Director of Information Security Network Policy Office, Ministry of Science and ICT/This is clearly a management issue. It seems difficult to view this as an intelligent attack.}

Domestic users can also participate in the class action lawsuit filed by Coupang victims in the United States.

You can apply without cost through the website banner of New York SJKP Law Firm, a partner of the domestic law firm.

{Kook-il Kim/Representative of Daeryun Law Firm/Class Action (Class Action) Applicants can continue to add additional members until the court makes a decision. There are now over 7,000 people.}

A class action lawsuit filed by Coupang delivery riders was also initiated separately from the users.

A total of 135,000 Coupang riders' personal information was leaked around 2021.

{Koo Gyo-hyeon/Public Transport Workers' Union Rider Union Branch Manager/It cannot be denied that this is very clear evidence that the company took no responsibility or took any measures regarding security issues regarding the leak of personal information.}

Coupang promised to prevent a recurrence of personal information leakage in November 2024, but 33 million pieces of personal information were leaked in just one year.

Interest in domestic and international lawsuits that will determine Coupang's responsibility for this is expected to increase in the future.

This is KNN Gil Jae-seop from Seoul.

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