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WeChat Data Leak Leads To Arrest Of Tencent Executive Zhang Feng

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Dissent

Cullen Paradis reports:

Zhang Feng, an executive at China’s most valuable public company Tencent Holdings, has been detained by authorities in connection to a data leak and corruption scandal.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Zhang is accused of sending user data from the messaging app juggernaut WeChat to Sun Lijun, the former vice public security minister now under investigation for unspecified violations against the CCP.

Read more on IBT.

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