Hackers used a security flaw to infiltrate online shopping mall giant 360Buy in the past week, giving users access to other users' names, home addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, the Dong Fang Daily reports.
The incident follows on the heels of another major online hacking scheme when the personal information of more than 60 million internet users on the China Software Developer Network was leaked on December 21.
WooYun, a data leak reporting website,
said Tuesday that 360Buy called the incident a medium-level security threat and promised to handle it immediately, although the company did not confirm that some of its users had access to other users' personal data.
Li Daxue, Vice President of the company's Information Department, said 360Buy had taken action to close any system gaps and attempted to contact the party who issued the information about the data leak, although no one responded.
More than 1 billion internet users recently have been subjected to personal information leaks on 10 websites. Many websites infiltrated by hackers have notified the police, but no one has claimed responsibility for the incidents.
One internet security expert said web users should change their passwords frequently and reset the security levels on the websites as soon as possible.