Alibaba suffers billion-user 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 usernames and mobile phone numbers after they were lifted from the site by a crawler developed by an affiliate marketer,…

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