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Park Dae-jun has resigned as chief executive of South Korean retail giant Coupang after a data breach exposed the personal information of more than half of the country\u2019s population.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Park apologized for the breach, citing a \u201cdeep sense of responsibility for the outbreak and the subsequent recovery process.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coupang has replaced Park with Harold Rogers<\/a>, the top lawyer at Coupang\u2019s U.S.-based parent company, according to a machine translation of the company statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n The retail giant, often compared to Amazon for its dominance in South Korean e-commerce and logistics, last month revealed details of a data breach affecting close to 34 million people<\/a>. The breach allegedly began in June but wasn\u2019t noticed until November, when Coupang initially said over 4,500 customers had their data stolen.\u00a0The company later revised that figure dramatically upward.<\/p>\n The Coupang hack is the latest in a string of security incidents<\/a> affecting corporate giants and the central government across the country this year, including a data center fire that led to a massive, irretrievable loss of South Korean government data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n