Seoul: E-commerce giant Coupang Corp. said Thursday it has discovered a data leak of personal information from more than 165,000 customer accounts linked to an incident it first identified in November last year. The leaked data includes names, phone numbers, and addresses entered by customers on the address list for shipping, and the company has notified affected customers of the breach in line with recommendations from the state personal information protection watchdog, Coupang said.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the disclosure came as Coupang has come under intense scrutiny over the massive data leak revealed in November that has affected more than 33 million customers in South Korea and prompted authorities to launch an investigation. Coupang had independently announced that data from only 3,000 accounts was leaked, a figure authorities dispute. The company said the latest data leak is not a new case but was found in connection with the November incident.