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Sead Fadilpašić

Alibaba-owned online marketplace may have breached millions of users

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Chinese company Taobao, one of the world’s largest ecommerce websites, was reportedly leaking sensitive information on its users, a new report from Cybernews has claimed.

The team recently uncovered an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster of data, and say whoever built and maintained this was harvesting Taobao data illegally, “possibly through web crawling or other unauthorized means”.

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