Aliexpress 2021

In 2021 a significant data collection incident involving AliExpress occurred where information from approximately 166000 customers was gathered through automated web scraping techniques. The exposed dataset includes personal identifiers such as email addresses, full names, and physical shipping addresses. This type of data exposure often results from misconfigured interfaces or insufficient scraping protections allowing third parties to systematically harvest user profiles. The data was subsequently circulated in various underground forums and security research circles as a verified set of customer records.