Ali Alibaba Chinese giant has been exposed to the diversion of data on the Internet, which lasted for months. This process has led a sensitive data consultant, including user names and phone numbers.
According to Arab Net, a central Chinese court ruled that an employee of a consultant helps traders in the TAOBAO's electronic market. Fines totaled 450 thousand yuan ($ 70,260).
The company said in a statement that no customer statements were not sold, and the users of Alibaba did not suffer financial losses from the operation. However, the incident coincides with Beijing's growing efforts to tighten privacy and address the information collected by the Internet giants from Alibaba to Tencent Holdings LTD and Meituan daily from hundreds of millions of users.
Taobao spokesman said in a statement: Taobao allocates large resources to combat unauthorized infusion on our main system, as the privacy and security of data are of paramount importance.
"We have exploited and treated this unauthorized infusion .. We will continue to work with law enforcement agencies to defend our users' interests and partners and protect them.
Shares on Alibaba, e-commerce giant, fell more than 1% in Hong Kong trading on Wednesday.
The Chinese administration stressed its control over the information treasure collected by technology companies in the country, as part of efforts to make China a leading country in huge data, with a growing impact of its major private companies.
The government was pumping funds in data centers and other digital infrastructure, to make electronic information an economically economically engine.
The new data security system in China enters into force on September 1, giving the government closing or imposing a fine on technology companies that find that they are causing core state data. The Legislative Council is also formulating legislation to protect personal information expected to be adopted this year.
This is referred to parallel discussions in the United States.
President Joe Biden ordered a security review for foreign program applications after canceled the ban on Tiktok and China-owned applications, which faced opposition to US courts.
