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| 2026-01-30 14:40:34
Coupang CEO-police probe
Coupang's interim CEO appears for police questioning over massive data breach
By Chae Yun-hwan
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Yonhap) --Harold Rogers, interim CEO of Coupang Corp., appeared before police Friday to be questioned about suspicions of evidence destruction in connection with a massive data breach at the e-commerce company.
Rogers is accused of obstructing police and government investigations into the breach -- estimated to have affected nearly 33 million users -- by independently announcing that data from only 3,000 accounts were actually leaked.
"Coupang has fully and will continue to fully cooperate with all of the government investigations that are looking into us. We will also fully cooperate with the police investigation today," Rogers said as he arrived at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.
He did not respond to reporters' questions about the allegations of evidence destruction and the basis of the company's announcement.
Police have been investigating Coupang over whether the outcome of its internal probe is authentic. They plan to question Rogers about the probe and examine whether there were attempts to destroy evidence.
The government has criticized the announcement as a one-sided claim. Police have yet to confirm the exact amount of data leaked but believe more than 30 million accounts have been affected.
Rogers, who defied two previous police summonses, had left South Korea on Jan. 1, a day after attending a two-day parliamentary hearing into the retail giant's leak before returning back to the country last week.
Rogers is also accused of violating a law on testimony before parliament over his remarks during the hearing that the company met the suspect behind the breach at the National Intelligence Service's (NIS) instructions. The NIS has denied the claim.
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