China techAlibaba execs called in by Shanghai authorities over police data heist
Hacker claims info on 1bn people taken from company server
The hacker claims that the Shanghai police data covering 1 billion Chinese citizens came from an Alibaba private cloud server. © AP
CISSY ZHOU, Nikkei staff writer
HONG KONG -- Executives and senior technicians from Alibaba Group Holding were summoned by Shanghai police on July 3 after the law enforcement agency suffered what appears to be one of the biggest data breaches in history, individuals briefed on the matter tell Nikkei Asia.