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N. Korea ramps up cybertheft following $2.3 bil. crypto haul: report - The Korea Times
1+ hour, 49+ min ago North Korea has refined its cryptocurrency hacking operations, carrying out fewer but far more lucrative attacks on major targets and deploying increasingly sophisticated laundering techniques to evade detection, according to a report by the blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. While the…...
N. Korea ramps up cyber theft following $2.3 bil. crypto haul: report - The Korea Times
4+ hour, 14+ min ago North Korea has refined its cryptocurrency hacking operations, carrying out fewer but far more lucrative attacks on major targets and deploying increasingly sophisticated laundering techniques to evade detection, according to a report by the blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. While the…...
Korean firms' excessive collection of data led to Coupang data breach - The Korea Times
2+ day, 23+ hour ago Javed Khattak, co-founder and chief financial officer of cheqd / Courtesy of cheqd The massive personal data breach at Coupang shows that collecting everything "just in case" is the default, because users have no practical way to say no, according to…...
Gov't to form task force to handle Coupang data breach case - The Korea Times
3+ day, 7+ hour ago Coupang's headquarters in Seoul / Yonhap The government said Thursday it will form an interagency task force to handle the recent large-scale data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang. The decision was made at a meeting of science and technology'related ministers chaired…...
Coupang draws bipartisan criticism as founder skips parliamentary hearing - The Korea Times
3+ day, 22+ hour ago Coupang's founder Kim Bom-suk came under bipartisan fire Wednesday after refusing to appear at a National Assembly hearing on the company's massive customer data breach affecting more than 33 million people, with lawmakers lashing out at him for evading responsibility. The…...
Coupang founder may face entry ban for refusing to attend Assembly hearings - The Korea Times
4+ day, 27+ min ago Coupang Inc. founder and Chairman Bom Kim / AP-Yonhap A ruling party lawmaker has proposed legislation that would ban foreign nationals from entering the country if they fail to appear before National Assembly hearings without justifiable reasons, according to officials Wednesday....
New Coupang CEO's ‘empty' pledge for compensation stokes outrage - The Korea Times
4+ day, 1+ hour ago Coupang's founder Kim Bom-suk came under bipartisan fire Wednesday after refusing to appear at a National Assembly hearing on the company's massive customer data breach affecting more than 33 million people, with lawmakers lashing out at him for evading responsibility. The…...
Coupang data breach fuels calls to expand class action lawsuits - The Korea Times
6+ day, 3+ hour ago Delivery trucks are parked at a Coupang facility in Seoul, Sunday. The weekly active users of the Coupang app stood at 29,935,356 in the week of Dec. 1-7, up about 4.1 percent from the week of Nov. 3-9, despite concerns over a recent data…...
Coupang founder will not attend upcoming parliamentary hearing over massive data breach: lawmakers - The Korea Times
6+ day, 17+ hour ago Coupang Inc. Founder and Board Chairman Kim Bom-suk / Korea Times file Coupang Inc. founder Kim Bom-suk has said he would not appear for a parliamentary hearing this week over the e-commerce giant's massive data breach that affected nearly 34 million people,…...
Applicants for class-action lawsuit against Coupang in US exceed 2,300 - The Korea Times
1+ week, 1+ day ago Coupang's headquarters in Seoul, Tuesday / Yonhap The number of people who have expressed their intention to join a U.S. class-action lawsuit against Coupang over a recent massive data leak has surpassed 2,300, a domestic law firm said Friday. Daeryun Law Firm LLC…...