Ant Group

Ant Group

Ant Financial, Alibaba’s payment affiliate, was scolded by China’s cyber watchdog for compromising user privacy.

Many users of its Alipay service were automatically enrolled in its credit scoring system.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ant-financial-china/chinas-cyber-watchdog-scolds-ant-financial-over-user-privacy-breach-idUSKBN1F006B

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/antgroup

"id": "ant232419522",
"linkid": "antgroup",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "01/2018",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Financial Services',
                        'location': 'China',
                        'name': 'Ant Financial',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'data_breach': {'type_of_data_compromised': ['Credit Scoring Data']},
 'description': 'Ant Financial, Alibaba’s payment affiliate, was scolded by '
                'China’s cyber watchdog for compromising user privacy. Many '
                'users of its Alipay service were automatically enrolled in '
                'its credit scoring system.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Credit Scoring Data'],
            'systems_affected': ['Alipay Service']},
 'title': 'Ant Financial Privacy Breach',
 'type': 'Privacy Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'User Privacy'}
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