Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Coupang, South Korea's largest online retailer described as the country's Amazon.com, has apologized for a data breach impacting nearly 34 million of its customers.
The company, which operates its global headquarters from Seattle, Wash., confirmed the cyberattack in a letter Sunday and explained that the data breach compromised customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses and some order histories.
"We express regret over the recent incident ... we apologize for causing inconvenience and concern," Park Dae-jun, Coupang's chief executive officer wrote in the statement.
Coupang said credit card numbers, login credentials, payment information and other more sensitive information were not affected.
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