Alibaba execs hauled in to discuss Shanghai Police data leak

Senior execs from Alibaba Cloud were summoned to discuss the data leak that saw information pertaining to a billion Chinese citizens sold on the dark web, according to Nikkei and The Wall Street Journal. The leak is thought to have come from a misconfigured Alibaba Cloud server that did not require a password to access the trove, which exposed names, home addresses, ID numbers, phone numbers, and criminal records.

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