By typing the words "Shanghai company bosses” into the search engine of Baidu’s test database, wenku.baidu.com, a surfer could get detailed information on local companies and their senior officials. About 60,000 company heads accidentally had personal details on display.
The information included their names, mobile phone numbers and company and home addresses.
Thaindian News reports that according to Baidu regulations, victims who find their private information had been leaked illegally on the website can report whoever uploaded the files to the website. Baidu will delete such files from its website if they are proved to be illegally released private information.
Surprisingly, most of those whose personal details were uploaded seemed to accept the situation philosophically and apparently do not intend to take action.