NetEase Inc
| Primary URL | Location | Industry | netease[.]com |
Country
China
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Technology
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Profile
NetEase Inc, also known as Letter Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in China. It operates email platforms such as 126.com, 163.com, Yeah.net and the premium vip.163.com domain. As an internet technology firm, it provides a range of online services to users in China and abroad.
The scale of NetEase's user base was highlighted in a 2015 security incident where a hacker offered for sale stolen accounts from its email services. The compromised data encompassed over a billion accounts across the company's services. Specific listings detailed 143 million accounts from 126.com and over a billion accounts combined from 163.com and 163.net. Additional smaller volumes were reported from premium domains such as vip.163.com. This incident formed part of a broader leak dubbed "The Big Asian Leak," which also affected other major regional providers and international email services. The entire dataset was priced at approximately $800 in Bitcoin. The company's headquarters remains in China as stated in the public record. No further parent or subsidiary details are disclosed in the supplied context.