A person familiar with the matter revealed that the cloud computing department executives of Alibaba Group Holdings Co., Ltd. were interviewed by relevant Shanghai departments for a large -scale police database leak.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the survey surveyed a group of Shanghai Police sensitive data involving nearly 1 billion Chinese citizens sold on the Internet in late June for about $ 200,000 (about 280,000 yuan).Cyber security researchers said that a gateway to manage the database has been opened on the public Internet for more than a year without setting a password, so it is easy to let the outside world steal and delete its database content.
According to the scanning of the database, network security researchers determined that the database was picked up on the cloud platform of Alibaba.Alibaba employees also confirmed this.Alibaba is conducting an internal survey to understand why data leakage occurs.
A person familiar with the matter said that after an anonymous seller published a data advertisement and provided data samples on the online crime forum, the executives of Alibaba and its cloud computing department held a network meeting on July 1 to discuss emergency response to emergency response on July 1measure.
Alibaba representatives did not respond to the requests of Reuters and Bloomberg.Bloomberg reported that the market price of Alibaba's US deposit (ADR) fell 5.1%after opening the market in the New York Exchange.
The unknown hacker "Chinadan" posted a message in the online forum on June 30 that the Shanghai Police database leaked and the personal information of up to 1 billion Chinese people was stolen.Hackers also proposed that 10 Bitcoin, which is equivalent to $ 200,000 (S $ 280,000), sold more than 23 TERABYTE, which is equivalentEssence
Related topics have aroused heated discussion among Chinese netizens.Some netizens expressed shock and described the data leakage like "streaking"; but some netizens questioned the authenticity of the news and believed that the personal information of 1 billion people only wanted to sell 10 Bitcoin is too cheap.
Chinese officials remained silent for the incident, Li Keqiang hosted a executive meeting of the State Council on Wednesday (July 6) to emphasize the need to observe information security, improve security management regulations, and protect personal information, privacy and business business.Secret, "safe, reliable, convenient and efficient, so that the masses and enterprises can rest assured."
Li Keqiang also asked for serious investigation and punishment of various types of violations of individuals and enterprises such as illegal use information and abuse of information.
