Chinese authorities grill Alibaba executives in data leak of 1 bn people


Source: bhaskarlive.in bhaskarlive.in

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According to a report in Nikkei Asia, Alibaba executives were called by Shanghai police as the law enforcement agency suffered one of the biggest data breaches in history. The hacker had claimed that the Shanghai police data covering 1 billion Chinese citizens came from an Alibaba private cloud server. The leaked data from the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database was put up for sale on Dark Web for 10 Bitcoins earlier this month. The data included names, addresses, identification numbers and mobile phone numbers. The size of the alleged hack has triggered serious concerns in China, at a time when...