South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission will oversee the safe destruction of personal data held by Interpark Commerce and WeMakePrice after the two companies were declared bankrupt. The commission said the possibility of restarting services has effectively vanished, and it plans to destroy member data collected and processed to prevent potential leaks. It will work with bankruptcy administrators to verify IT assets and data locations and ensure irreversible deletion, while blocking any illegal distribution during disposal of used equipment.

At a joint National Assembly hearing on Coupang’s personal data leak case, lawmakers challenged the technical credibility of the company’s self-investigation announced on Dec. 25. They questioned whether a single laptop forensic analysis could identify the scope of a large-scale data access case and warned the company may be minimising the incident. Government officials said Coupang pre-empted investigative conclusions and rejected claims of instruction, while other lawmakers raised questions over evidence handling and cooperation with U.S. tax authorities.