What to watch this week: Hyundai Motor’s data leak; Microsoft’s meeting app Teams has a new feature that can disable/enable profanity filters; European privacy regulators create a ChatGPT working group; Taobao Tmall Group completes organizational adjustments; Alibaba invests in Lazada again One hundred million U.S. dollars......
data security
Data breach at Hyundai
Hyundai recently revealed a data breach involving Italian and French car owners and test drive reservations. Hyundai is a multinational automaker that sells more than half a million vehicles a year in Europe, with a market share of about 3% in France and Italy.
According to multiple reports on Twitter and a sample notification shared by "HaveIBeenPwned" founder Troy Hunt, the incident exposed the following types of personal data: email address, physical address, phone number, vehicle chassis number.
Hyundai's notice clarified that the hackers who accessed Hyundai's database did not steal financial data or identification numbers. Separately, Hyundai said it hired IT specialists to handle the data breach and has taken affected systems offline until additional security measures are implemented. (Source: GoUpSec)
Sensitive data of well-known law firm clients exposed by Azure cloud for more than half a year
According to news on April 11, Proskauer Rose, a well-known international law firm in the United States, exposed client sensitive data due to a security breach, which lasted for more than six months.
According to a person familiar with the matter, ProLogis Law Firm kept its mergers and acquisitions data on an unsecured Microsoft Azure cloud server. Foreign media TechCrunch obtained part of the exposed data set, which contains about 184,000 files. The files, including private and high-privilege financial and legal documents, contracts, non-disclosure agreements, financial transactions, and documents related to high-profile acquisitions, can be accessed through a web browser by anyone who knows where they are stored.
This exposed cloud server was discovered by GrayHatWarfare. GrayHatWarfare is a searchable database that indexes publicly visible cloud storage and files. The documents are understood to have been available online for at least six months. (Source: Security Internal Reference)
KFC, Pizza Hut parent company reports data breach
Yum! Group, which owns KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell fast food chain brands, recently issued a notice disclosing that the personal information stolen in the ransomware attack encountered on January 13 this year was leaked. Moreover, the attack forced Yum! to close about 300 restaurants in the UK.
It is understood that the attackers stole some personal privacy information, including names, driver's license numbers and other identification numbers. But there is no evidence that the attackers leaked any customer information.
However, Yum! did not disclose whether the stolen personal information belonged to employees or customers, or the exact number of people affected by the data breach. No evidence has been found of the stolen data being used for identity theft or fraud. (Source: GoUpSec)
work those things
Microsoft's Teams meeting app has a new feature to disable/enable the profanity filter
News on April 12, after the announcement in February this year, Microsoft announced today that it will open a new feature for Teams users in the Public Preview channel, and it is up to the user to decide to disable/enable the swear word filter. (Source: IT Home)
industry
European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT working group
According to foreign media reports, the European Data Protection Board (European Data Protection Board) said on April 13 that it has established a working group on ChatGPT. According to the report, this is an important first step towards the development of a common policy of artificial intelligence privacy rules. (Source: interface)
E-commerce/logistics matters
Taobao Tmall Group completes organizational adjustment
According to news on April 14, Taobao Tmall Commercial Group has entered into formal operation according to the new organizational structure. Its core e-commerce business has set up three major industry development departments according to the value provided by the industry to consumers, which are respectively in charge of Qigong, Aowen and Yiman, and report to CEO Dai Shan. At the same time, Alibaba Group's middle-Taiwan team has been transferred in whole or in part, and Taobao Tmall Group has a complete and independent system of human resources and financial affairs to achieve comprehensive independent management.
It was previously reported that Alibaba’s domestic digital business sector (CDC) is undergoing business adjustments. This round of adjustments will separate Tmall and Taobao. Alibaba’s current president of Taobao Tmall Industry Development and Operation Center Yang Guang (nickname: Fuxue) will resign and is currently undergoing a handover. Liu Peng (nickname: Alvin), vice president of Ali Group and president of the B2C retail business group, will serve as the head of Tmall. Alibaba partner, vice president of the group, and head of Taobao Special Edition Wang Hai (nickname: Qigong) will serve as the person in charge of Taobao.
In addition, in terms of near-field retail, Taocaicai will be merged into Tmall in the next step, and will be integrated with the existing businesses of Tmall Supermarket and Taoxianda. Liu Yiman (nickname: Yiman), the current general manager of Tmall Supermarket, will be in charge . It is understood that Alibaba's "China Digital Business Section" was established on January 1, 2022, including Taobao (including Taobao, Tmall, Alimama), B2C retail business group, Taocaicai, Taote and 1688 and other businesses. (Source: 36 Krypton, Shenzhen Factory Official Account)
Jingchaoke App announced
According to the news on April 12, the Jingmai Merchant Center announced that in order to facilitate merchants to settle in and plan to operate Jingtiaoke, Jingtiaoke’s merchant terminal has launched a mobile version of the function upgrade, which supports merchants to settle in the mobile version, plan promotion settings, data query, Capabilities such as coupon recommendation and plan status change can reduce merchant operating costs and increase merchant promotion scale.
It is understood that Jingtiaoke is an off-site advertising delivery tool that is billed according to the actual transaction volume in cooperation with the Tuike alliance, that is, the cps sales share (actual transaction volume, commission ratio) allows merchants to efficiently increase off-site GMV and store pull. Marketing tool for new capabilities. (Source: Yibang Power)
Investment and financing / mergers and acquisitions
Alibaba invests another $352.9 million in Lazada
According to the news on April 14, according to the documents submitted by the Southeast Asian e-commerce giant Lazada to the Singapore Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) recently obtained by DealStreetAsia DATA VANTAGE, the Southeast Asian e-commerce giant Lazada received another US$352.9 million capital injection from the parent company Alibaba. . This brings the Chinese e-commerce giant's total investment in Lazada so far this year to $353.7 million. Last year, Alibaba injected a total of $1.6 billion into its Southeast Asian unit. (Source: Yibang Power)
Walmart to sell Bonobos for $75 million to divest e-commerce business
According to foreign media reports, Wal-Mart will sell Bonobos Inc. for $75 million to divest its e-commerce business. Walmart will sell Bonobos to fashion retailer Express Inc. and management company WHP Global, the companies said April 13. WHP Global will acquire the Bonobos brand for $50 million, while Express will acquire Bonobos' operating assets and assume the associated liabilities of the business for $25 million. (Source: interface)