Alipay Blames Flaw One User Found on Data Leak

(Shanghai) – The country's largest online payment service by number of users has said a customer who found his account was linked to e-commerce websites without his knowledge was the victim of data leak, but did not comment when other users found similar problems with their Alipay accounts.

The Alipay user said on Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, on October 8 that he was going through the settings for his account and discovered that it had been authorized to make payments to five websites even though he never gave his permission.