(Shanghai News) People 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 investigation surveyed a group of sensitive data involving nearly 1 billion Chinese citizens involved in the Shanghai police, and was sold online in late June for about $ 200,000 (about 280,000 yuan).Cyber security researchers said that the above database management gateway has been opened on the public Internet for more than a year, and has not set up a password, allowing the outside world to easily steal and delete the content of the database.
According to the scanning of the above databases, network security researchers determined that the database was hosted on the cloud platform of Alibaba, and Alibaba employees also confirmed this.Alibaba is conducting an internal survey to understand why database leaks occur.
People 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 an online meeting on July 1 to discuss emergency response measures.
People familiar with the matter said that the interviewed Ali executives include Chen Xuelong, Vice President of Alibaba Cloud, who has recently been hired by the digital public security business of the cloud computing department.
Familiar with internal operations revealed that after the database leakage occurred, Alibaba engineers temporarily banned the outside world from using the invaded databases and started inspection procedures, but the cause of invasion was not found.On June 30, the unknown hacker "Chinadan" posted a message in the online forum 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 selling data for $ 200,000.
Chinese officials remain silent for the incident for several days. On July 6, Li Keqiang hosted a executive meeting of the State Council to emphasize the need to observe information security, improve security management regulations, protect personal information, privacy and business secrets., Convenient and efficient, let the masses and enterprises do with peace of mind. "Li Keqiang also demanded seriously investigating and punishing various acts of violating the legitimate rights and interests of individuals and enterprises.
Affected by the information of the executive's interview, Alibaba led Chinese technology stocks on Friday (July 15), and the stock price fell 5.98 %, the largest single -day percentage decline since June 13, and dragged down Hang Seng TechnologyThe index fell as much as 3.5 %.
China's antitrust regulatory agency last weekend, after the past transactions were not properly reported to Alibaba and another Chinese Internet giant Tencent, Chinese technology stocks plummeted earlier this week, and Alibaba fell more than 15 % by 15 %EssenceThe latest report has exacerbated investors' caution of the technology industry.Analysts believe that the above survey will temporarily stop investors and evaluate whether China's official strengthening regulatory actions of the technology industry have ended or are still ongoing.
