DATE : JULY 2022 NUMBER OF RECORDS COMPROMISED : 1.1BN USERS

The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba suffered a massive data breach in 2022 that compromised customer data . Sensitive information leaked included names , ID numbers , phone numbers , addresses and even criminal records . In total , 23 terabytes of data was exposed from Alibaba Cloud , China ’ s most prominent public cloud service provider .

Dubbed as one of the biggest data breaches in history , the data of one billion Chinese citizens was exposed for more than a year , with an anonymous user in a hacker forum offering to sell the 23TB data for 10 bitcoin . cybermagazine . com 45