Coupang customer data breach
Add to my breach checkMade public · about 37.55 million people
What leaked6
Replaceable
- Building entrance code
Hard to replace
- Mobile number
- Home or delivery address
- Email address
Permanent
- Purchase or order history
- Full name
- Building entrance codeThe PIPC found 4,226 codes leaked unmasked. The address-list page masked the others, so for any one account it is possible, not confirmed.
- Mobile numberdelivery address-book phone
- Purchase or order historyorder history of 58,349 members · 272,470 orders: date, product, quantity, price; PIPC
To-dos5 · about 55 min in all
- Know the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsLimits harm from: scam calls, phishing messages
- Register as an exposed person with the FSSLimits harm from: scam calls (opens in a new tab)
- Block new loans and cards in your nameLimits harm from: scam calls (opens in a new tab)
- Change the building entrance codeStops: building entry
- Remove your address and phone from public profiles and tighten SNS privacyLimits harm from: visits or contact at home
What happened next50 events
Undetected: 3 events
Back to latest- Coupang detected the intrusion through its own investigation · date as found by MSIT
- First threat emails with sample data sent to members · 9 to 17 November 2025
- Intrusion began
- Company
- Coupang
- When it happened
- –
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- about 37.55 million people · PIPC decision June 11, 2026; 33.7M accounts in the first notice, +165,455 in February 2026
How the facts developed
- PIPC decision: about 37.55 million people. Penalty surcharge for the breach KRW 423.6 billion and an administrative fine of KRW 16.8 million. In the same decision, separate penalty surcharges: KRW 201.1 billion on Coupang for collecting online activity records without a legal basis, and KRW 248 million on CFS for unlawful collection and use of personal data and unlawful processing of sensitive data
- 165,455 further accounts (delivery lists: name, phone, address)
- Corrected notice after the PIPC's emergency resolution of December 3, 2025: '유출' instead of '노출', building entrance codes added. People on delivery lists who are not Coupang members were not notified (PIPC June 2026)
- First notice used '노출', listed name, email, delivery address book and some order info, and was posted for one to two days
Sources
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator, (opens in a new tab)checked October 15, 2026
- 뉴시스 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 디지털타임스 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 16, 2026
- 과학기술정보통신부 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026