South Korea’s government convened an inter-ministerial response meeting on Thursday to review investigations into platform companies’ personal data leaks. The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) said the government had expanded a pan-government task force on platform data protection and consumer harm, elevating its leadership to the deputy prime minister level. MSIT also stressed that investigations into the Coupang breach remain ongoing and that broader institutional reforms are being prepared to prevent future information leaks and secondary consumer damage.

Separately, Coupang released a detailed forensic briefingasserting that it had identified a former employee responsible for the breach, recovered all