The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that officials from Alibaba Group Holdings’ cloud division have been summoned by Shanghai authorities in connection with the theft of police data on Chinese citizens.
Based on the scan of police database, Cyber security Researchers concluded that the stolen data of nearly 1 billion Chinese citizens was hosted AlibabaAccording to the cloud platform of report good,
Alibaba did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Since the theft was discovered, Alibaba has temporarily disabled all access to the breached database and launched an inspection, the report said.
Earlier this month, it was informed of That a hacker claiming to have stolen personal data from millions of Chinese citizens is now selling the information online.
A sample of 750,000 entries posted online by the hacker showed citizens’ names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays and the police reports they had filed.
AFP and cyber security experts have verified some of the citizen data in the sample as authentic, but the scope of the entire database is hard to determine.
Advertised on a forum late last month, but only picked up by cybersecurity experts this week, the 23TB database – which hackers claim contains the records of a billion Chinese citizens – is being sold for $10 bitcoins (approx Rs.16,00,000). The 23TB database – which hackers claim contains the records of one billion Chinese citizens – 10 . being sold in bitcoins (approx Rs.16,00,000).
At least four of the more than a dozen people contacted by AFP confirmed their personal details, such as names and addresses, as listed in the database.
In response to the original post, users speculated that the data may have been hacked by someone Alibaba Cloud The server where it was apparently being stored by the Shanghai Police.
Cybersecurity analyst Potter confirmed that the files were hacked from Alibaba Cloud, which did not respond to an AFP request for comment.
If confirmed, the breach would be the largest in history and a major breach of recently accepted Chinese data protection laws.