Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-01-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: Alipay
Affected country: China
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A former employee of Alipay and two accomplices are in custody, suspected of having sold customers' personal information to e-commerce companies starting in 2010. A total of 20 Gb of data were exfiltrated from the Back-End Systems.