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Sead Fadilpašić

Top online marketplace leak sees thousands of user accounts exposed

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A Chinese online marketplace apparently unknowingly leaked hundreds of thousands of highly sensitive customer records which could have easily been used for identity fraud and other forms of cybercrime, a new report has claimed. 

Researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a shady marketplace called Z2U keeping an unlocked database on a cloud server hosting roughly 600,000 records. 

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