Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers

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Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed

Alibaba’s Chinese shopping operation Taobao has suffered a data breach of over a billion data points including usernames and mobile phone numbers. The info was lifted from the site by a crawler developed by an affiliate marketer.…

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