The breach was first announced by a hacker through online forums, claiming to have data on the Shanghai police force, whose data was also hosted on Alibaba Cloud. In total, over 23 terabytes of data had been compromised from Alilbaba's cloud hosting servers, Alibaba Cloud, also the largest public cloud service provider in China.
In mid-2022, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba suffered a major data breach that contained customer data including:
