Zhefengle’s Oops Moment: The Unplanned Export of 3.3 Million Customer Data Points – A Comedy of Errors in Cybersecurity

Talk about an import mishap! The Chinese ecommerce data breach at Zhefengle is like leaving your house keys under the doormat and wondering why you got robbed. With the database as unprotected as a dragon-fight with a plastic spoon, let’s hope the only thing they’ve exported is a lesson in password protection.

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Oh, the irony! Zhefengle, a Chinese e-commerce store that's all about importing products, has suffered a massive data leak, which probably wasn't on their import list. It's like leaving your front door wide open and then wondering why you got robbed. To top it off, the database was so unprotected that anyone with the IP address could have accessed it. Now, that's what I call open-source data! Let's hope the only thing they've exported is a lesson on the importance of password protection.

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