(Seoul = News1) Reporter Song Song-yi – Law firm Jihyang announced on the 8th that it has filed a class-action lawsuit for damages at the Seoul Central District Court on behalf of 10,330 victims of the Coupang personal information leak incident.
Jihyang received authorization for the lawsuit from over 20,000 victims as of the previous day (the 7th) and is processing them sequentially. On the 2nd, they applied for collective dispute mediation with the Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee.
Jihyang argued that this incident is not a simple accident but a predictable “man-made disaster” resulting from the collapse of Coupang’s multi-layered security system.
Jihyang cites Coupang’s failure to immediately delete accounts of resigned employees, not renewing authentication signature keys for years, and the intrusion detection system being unresponsive to 33.7 million leaked cases over five months as core issues of Privacy Act violations and mismanagement.
Attorney Lee Eun-woo of Jihyang stated, “Through this lawsuit, we aim to sound an alarm on companies’ complacent security awareness and establish social standards that ensure the rights of information subjects.”
Attorney Kim Myo-hee of Jihyang said, “This lawsuit is to obtain fair compensation for the suffering of the victims, and we will do our utmost until the end.”