Alibaba Falls Victim to Chinese Web Crawler in Large Data Leak
A Chinese software developer trawled the popular Taobao shopping website for eight months, collecting more than 1.1 billion pieces of user information including IDs and phone numbers.
The software developer began using web-crawling software he designed on Taobao’s site starting in November 2019, gathering information including user IDs, mobile-phone numbers and customer comments.
While the developer didn’t obtain encrypted information such as passwords, some of the data he scraped, including phone numbers and a portion of usernames, isn’t publicly presented on the website.
Source: Alibaba Falls Victim to Chinese Web Crawler in Large Data Leak – WSJ
