South Korean police to question Coupang's interim CEO in data breach probe

South Korean police will question on Friday the American head of e-commerce firm Coupang Inc's local unit over a data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of customers.



Interim Chief Executive Harold Rogers pledged to cooperate with all probes into the data leak.



"Coupang has fully and will continue to fully cooperate with all of the government investigations that are now looking into us," he told reporters on his arrival at a Seoul police station.



"We will also fully cooperate with the police investigation today," he said.



A task force at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency summoned Rogers to question him on suspicion of evidence tampering while Coupang was conducting an internal investigation into the breach, the Yonhap News Agency reported.



Rogers became interim CEO after former executive Park Dae-jun resigned in December, taking responsibility for the data breach, which was disclosed in November.



His appearance before police comes amid diplomatic tension with Washington after U.S. lawmakers and officials expressed concern over the investigation. South Korean officials said regulators were handling the case in the same way they would with any Korean company.