Park Dae-jun has resigned as chief executive of South Korean retail giant Coupang after a data breach exposed the personal information of more than half of the country’s population.

In a statement, Park apologized for the breach, citing a “deep sense of responsibility for the outbreak and the subsequent recovery process.”

Coupang has replaced Park with Harold Rogers , the top lawyer at Coupang’s U.S.-based parent company, according to a machine translation of the company statement .

The retail giant, often compared to Amazon for its dominance in South Korean e-commerce and logistics, last month revealed details of a data breach affecting close to 34 million people . The breach allegedly began in June but wasn’t noticed until November, when Coupang initially said over 4,500 custome

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