
Coupang filed a cancellation suit with the Seoul Administrative Court and applied for a suspension of execution, dissatisfied with the largest ever fine of 624.6 billion won imposed by the Personal Information Protection Commission in relation to personal information leakage and unauthorized collection of member information.
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Last June, the Personal Information Commission imposed a fine of 620 billion won on Coupang, the largest ever, for personal information leakage and unauthorized collection of member information.
Last June, the largest fine ever imposed by the Personal Information Commission was imposed.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Bitna Kim = Coupang filed a lawsuit against the 620 billion won fine imposed in connection with personal information leaks.
According to the legal community on the 8th, Coupang filed two cancellation lawsuits, including imposition of fines, against the Personal Information Protection Commission at the Seoul Administrative Court the previous day.
The subject of the lawsuit is 624.6 billion won, including 423.5 billion won in fines imposed in connection with the personal information leak incident and 201.1 billion won in fines imposed for violations such as unauthorized collection of online activity records of more than 10 million members.
All were decided by the Personal Information Protection Committee last June, and each filed a separate lawsuit.
This is the largest fine ever imposed for a single personal information leak incident, and it is also the largest fine imposed for multiple violations by a single company.
Coupang also applied for a suspension of execution to stop the effect of the fine.
The Personal Information Commission determined that personal information was leaked because Coupang did not properly have a basic safety management system such as authentication signature key management and access control.
In response, Coupang said, "Regarding last year's data leak incident, we regret that preemptive measures to prevent secondary damage and explanations based on clear facts were not sufficiently reflected in the decision of the Personal Information Committee. We hope that the facts will be clearly identified through legal procedures."
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