"Coupang data leak suspect selected 3,000 adult-product buyers to blackmail"

[Financial News] A lawmaker at the National Assembly claimed that the suspect who leaked 33.67 million items of personal data from Coupang tried to single out customers who had ordered adult products and blackmail them. In response, Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said, "From the overall scale of the leak to its content, this is almost unprecedented."
During a National Assembly interpellation session on the 11th, Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Kim Seung-won said, "The Coupang issue seems extremely serious," and pointed out, "The suspect in the leak selected 3,000 citizens who had ordered adult products and tried to profit by threatening Coupang, saying, 'I have their purchase records and will leak this information.'" In response, Prime Minister Kim made the above remarks.
Kim explained, "Out of the more than 33 million citizens whose personal information was leaked, the suspect sourced and classified 3,000 people who had ordered adult products, created a separate list, and told Coupang, 'I know all of their addresses, names, and phone numbers. If you do not pay, I will expose these people and put Coupang in a difficult position.'"
He went on to stress, "This means an enormous amount of our citizens' personal information is being exploited by criminal groups," adding, "We must also prepare countermeasures against this."

Prime Minister Kim responded, "Each relevant institution is not only conducting investigations and criminal probes, but is also preparing various preventive measures to ensure that something like this does not happen again."
He also mentioned the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing on Coupang.
Kim Seung-won noted, "The title of that hearing is reportedly 'Hearing on the Investigation of Discriminatory Targeting of Innovative American Companies by Korea,'" and pointed out, "At this hearing, they claimed that 'the personal data leak that occurred in Korea affected only about 3,000 people, involved information that was not very sensitive and was limited in scope, and was later fully recovered,' and they issued a subpoena to Harold Rogers, acting head of Coupang Korea, to appear."
He then asked, "Shouldn't we respond to this?" Prime Minister Kim replied, "We see this as a document by the U.S. House based on distorted information. We are responding."
When asked how the government is responding to the U.S. House of Representatives, Prime Minister Kim explained, "We checked whether the Prime Minister's Office should take charge, and I was briefed that each relevant institution, including the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United States, is organizing the facts and working to convey and reflect them."
y27k@fnnews.com Seo Yoon-kyung Reporter