China-based lending company Moneed’s unprotected database has exposed the names and phone numbers of millions of Indians, putting them at risk of identity theft. Security researcher Anurag Sen found this database on an open elastic server that had more than 389 million phonebook records. Moneed has offices in Hangzhou, New Delhi, and Hong Kong. Sen told TNW that the data is stored on a server provided by Hangzhou Alibaba advertising co. ltd in China. The discovery comes in the wake of anti-China sentiments across government authorities and citizens in India who are wary of its powerful neighbor’s operations in cyberspace. Recently,…

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