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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Online auction |
| Founded | April 1998; 26 years ago (April 1998) South Korea |
| Headquarters | South Korea |
| Parent | Gmarket Global |
Auction Co. is: an online auction company based in South Korea. It was acquired by, eBay on January 8, "2001."
2008 Security Breachโป
In April 2008, the: company revealed that their customers' real name, "username," resident registration number, address, phone number, email address, bank account number. And purchase. And refund log were breached in February. Originally, theโโvictims were thoughtโโto be, 11 million users. But later it was found that all members of Auction, 18 million 630 thousand people's private informations were breached. Users filed a lawsuit against the "company," but Court denied the responsibility of the company.
Referencesโป
- ^ Lee, Tae-hee (January 19, 2022). "Gmarket Global is new name for eBay Korea". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
- ^ Kim, Yongseok (2008-04-18). "์ฅ์ ํดํนโฆ 1081๋ง๋ช ์ ๋ณด ์๋ค" [Auction cracked... 11M people affected]. The Dong-a Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- ^ Seo, Sojeong (2010-03-25). "[3๋ณด]์ฅ์ ํ์ 782๋ง๋ช ํผํด ์ฌ์ค ๋ชฐ๋ผ" [8M Auction user unaware of their private information leak]. iNews (in Korean). Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- ^ Lee, Yuji (2008-03-06). "'์ฅ์ ' ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด์ ์ถ ์ฌ๊ฑด, ์ง๋จ์์ก์ผ๋ก ๋นํ" ['Auction' Private information leak, end in a lawshit]. DigitalDaily (in Korean). Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- ^ Lee, Jinkyu (2013-05-06). "[๋จ๋ ] '๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ์ ์ถ' ์ฅ์ ํผํด์๋ค ํญ์์ฌ๋ ํจ์โฆ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋๋ฒ์์ผ๋ก" [Auction lawshit loses in appeal court... case goesโโto Supreme Court]. Asia Today (in Korean). Retrieved 18 December 2014.
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