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
Remedy: 2 events
Back to latest- Vouchers worth KRW 50,000 per person in four kinds (Coupang 5,000, Coupang Eats 5,000, Coupang Travel 20,000, R.LUX 20,000) issued in the app to 33.79 million customers, withdrawn members includedEnded April 15, 2026
- Voucher compensation of about KRW 1.685 trillion announced for customers notified in late November 2025, issued from 15 January 2026
- 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