{"id":50716,"date":"2020-11-21T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=148615"},"modified":"2020-11-21T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T02:12:12","slug":"lazada-denies-being-behind-data-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2020\/11\/21\/lazada-denies-being-behind-data-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazada denies being behind data leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lazada denies being behind data leak Lazada denies being behind data leak Posted on by Times of News Buddhipongse: Says data from 2018<br \/>\nOnline retail operator, Lazada, insisted on Friday it was not responsible for leaking any online shoppers\u2019 data following a report claiming that about 13 million records from Lazada Thailand were being offered for sale on an underground trading forum.<br \/>\nThe company said it had conducted an initial investigation and found the records being offered came from various e-commerce operators.<br \/>\nLazada was responding to a Facebook post about the sale of data in which the seller claimed to work for the company\u2019s Thai office.<br \/>\nThe \u201cSorn Hack Web Baeb Maew Maew\u201d Facebook page reported that the data available to buyers on the dark web included customers\u2019 names, phone numbers and email addresses.<br \/>\nThe seller claimed the information came from Lazada.co.th and he had 13 million records.<br \/>\nLazada said it had not leaked the data, was actually among the victims damaged by the incident and was investigating.<br \/>\nThe company also said it had strictly complied with data protection rules and always placed emphasis on data privacy.<br \/>\nDigital Economy and Society Minister Buddhipongse Punnakanta said initial inquiries showed that the data put up for sale included personal information plus details of transactions such as dates, amounts of money and channels used in the transactions.<br \/>\nMr Buddhipongse confirmed the information was from 2018 and that the channels included Lazada, Facebook, the Line chat application and Shopee.<br \/>\nHe said he had invited representatives from e-commerce operators and cyber-security specialists from various agencies to meet next week to discuss how to tighten data protection.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazada denies being behind data leak Lazada denies being behind data leak Posted on by Times of News Buddhipongse: Says data from 2018<br \/>\nOnline retail operator, Lazada, insisted on Friday it was not responsible for leaking any online shoppers\u2019 data foll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,586,194,1002,465],"tags":[1845,10490,1745],"class_list":["post-50716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-commerce","category-economy","category-news-chinese-law","category-retail","category-social-media","tag-facebook","tag-singapore-technology","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50717,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50716\/revisions\/50717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}