Private Details of 1 Billion Chinese Citizens up for Sale on Dark Web

 

In what could be the biggest-ever breach of personal information in history, the massive store of data containing information about more than a billion people has been leaked from a government agency, possibly from China, and put up for sale on Dark Web for 10 Bitcoins. 

More than 23TB of details apparently siphoned from a Shanghai police database stored in Alibaba’s cloud was put up for sale on the underground Breach Forums by someone with the handle ‘ChinaDan’. The leaked data included names, addresses, birthplaces, national ID numbers, cellphone numbers, and details of any related police records. 

“In 2022, the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database was leaked. This database contains many TB of data and information on Billions of Chinese citizen,” Changpeng Zhao, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, posted on Twitter. “Databases contain information on 1 billion Chinese national residents and several billion case records, including: name, address, birthplace, national ID number, mobile number, all crime/case details.”

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