Ali Baba shares sank on Friday after the report said tech Giant CEOs have been summoned in for Meetings with Chinese officials over The theft of Extensive police database.
hacker last month mode on Selling what they claimed to be personal information of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens – which one, if truewould make him one of Biggest data theft in history.
Cyber security analysts later confirmed that the data – partially verified by Agence France-Presse (AFP) – had been stored. on Alibaba cloud servers, apparently by the Shanghai police.
company shares Decreased by 5.7% at the open in Hong Kong on Friday, hours After the Wall Street Journal reported that the Shanghai authorities had called in its CEOs for talks in Connection with Stealing.
The magazine quoted its name people a favour with It is also said that the executives included Alibaba Cloud Vice President Chen Xuesong, who head the unit digital public Safety work.
the report added who – which senior The managers contract from Alibaba and its cloud unit A virtual Meeting on July 1 after the seller announced about stolen Database in Cybercrime Forum.
as part of An internal investigation, the company’s engineers cut off access to the hacked database and began reviewing the relevant code, the magazine reported, citing familiar employees with Ali Baba’s response to the hack.
The database is believed to have been stored on Alibaba servers using Outdated and unsafe technology.
Alibaba did not immediately respond to an AFP request confirm The information in the report.
China maintains sprawling surveillance across the country network Which collects huge quantities of Data from its citizens ostensibly for security purposes.
Beijing has released stronger data protection laws in Last few years public consciousness of Data security and privacy issues have grown.
However, there are a few ways for Ordinary citizens to stop government from the gathering information on they.
the sample of 750,000 entries posted online By the hacker showed the names of the citizens, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses and dates of Birth and police reports they provided.
hacker wanted 10 bitcoin – About $200,000 at the time – for The entire database.
some of The information It seems it was drawn of express delivery services, while other data included summaries of Police Accident Reports in Shanghai over more From decade to year 2019.
at least four people out of more More than a dozen contacted AFP last The week confirmed their details were included in Database.
