{"id":44754,"date":"2022-01-10T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32978\/China-Puts-Walmart-In-The-Naughty-Corner-Over-19-Vulnerabilities.html"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:15:32","slug":"china-puts-walmart-in-the-naughty-corner-over-19-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/china-puts-walmart-in-the-naughty-corner-over-19-vulnerabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"China Puts Walmart In The Naughty Corner Over 19 Vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

American budget retailer Walmart was cited for 19 alleged cybersecurity breaches in China, state-sponsored media reported last week.<\/p>\n

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Chinese customers buy imported products from all over the world at a Walmart Sam’s Club in early 2021. Sam’s is one of the largest members-only stores in the world<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“It is reported that the public security organs discovered nineteen exploitable network security vulnerabilities in Walmart’s network system on November 25, 2021, and [the company] did not deal with system vulnerabilities in a timely manner,” said<\/a> China Quality News, a mouthpiece for the country’s State Administration for Market Supervision (SAMR) regulatory agency, in a canned statement in Chinese.<\/p>\n

It claimed this was a breach of the country’s Internet Security Law of the People’s Republic of China.<\/p>\n

The news outlet said an administrative penalty warning was issued in addition to an order to the US parent firm to correct their network sins, handed to Walmart in “December 2021.” There is no evidence of a financial penalty issued at this time.<\/p>\n

The timing of the announcement is curious, as earlier in the week reports emerged in the Middle Kingdom that Walmart subsidiary Sam’s Club was not stocking Xinjiang-produced goods.<\/p>\n

Xinjiang remains an area of tension in US-China relations as the western world generally maintains that members of China’s minority Muslim Uyghur population are being detained in heavily surveilled internment camps and subjected to human rights violations. China denies accusations of abuses in the region.<\/p>\n

Sam’s Club claimed<\/a> in November to have sold over 4 million Chinese memberships in 36 stores across 23 cities, and said its e-commerce platform covered “most of the country.” Sam’s Club shoppers are now cancelling their memberships in their droves due to the domestic perception of playing politics, according to a recording of a local analysts’ call cited by Reuters.<\/p>\n