Alibaba-owned Lazada suffers data breach for its grocery delivery business in Singapore

  • Date: 02-Nov-2020
  • Source: CNBC
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:GCC
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Alibaba-owned Lazada suffers data breach for its grocery delivery business in Singapore

The Lazada application seen displayed on a iPhone.Guillaume Payen | LightRocket | Getty ImagesSINGAPORE — Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada said it detected a data breach that exposed personal details of many users in Singapore.Lazada's cybersecurity team discovered on Thursday last week that there was illegal access to a customer database for RedMart, the online grocery delivery service in the city-state. The Alibaba-owned company said the information contained in the database was "more than 18 months out of date."The database was used by the now decommissioned RedMart app and website and was hosted on a third-party service provider, according to Lazada.Lazada bought RedMart in late-2016 and last March, it integrated the grocery delivery service with its own app and website — about the same time that the affected database was