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South Korea fines Coupang $409 million in country's largest data breach penalty

South Korea fines Coupang $409 million in country's largest data breach penalty SEOUL, June 11 : South Korea will fine e-commerce giant Coupang 625 billion won ($409.30 million) over a massive leak of customer information last year and illegal collection of personal information, in the country's largest data breach penalty on a company. The Personal Information Protection Commission said the New York-listed company had leaked personal data of more than 33 million customers and failed to...

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South Korea fines Coupang $408m over biggest data leak in country’s history

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FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers' IDs

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No Instagram, no TikTok till 16: Malaysia bans social media accounts for teens

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FCC robocall crackdown could change phone privacy

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