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Hackers allegedly stole the records of1 billion Chinese residentsfrom Shanghai police. This could be the biggest data breach in Shanghai's history.
A hacker's hotspot bleach forum post contains information on "a billion Chinese citizens and billions of incident records," for a total of 10 Bitcoins ( It sells for about $ 200,000).
On Sunday, a poster using the name ChinaDan will have ainformation pilewith "name, address, hometown, national ID number, mobile phone number, all. Contains details of the crime / incident. " ..
The post remains unconfirmed, but it is of great interest both in China and abroad. Users of China's Weibo and WeChat platforms have expressed great concern and distress about the truth of the claim.
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Reuters reported that Weibo blocked the #dataleak trend throughout Sunday.
The Violation Forum poster analyzed a sample of the data and discussed credibility, mainly because of the asking price of such valuable information.
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There is one poster calling 10 Bitcoin "too cheap" as government information. In particular, the Asian market reports that "there is a danger of being hunted and killed."
The forum admin closed the thread on Sunday night and offered one 6 Bitcoin offer at a time.
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Kendra Schaefer, Consultant A partner of the company Trivium China said the breach was "bad for many reasons" if it proved to be genuine.
"Obviously this will be one of the biggest and worst violations in history," Schaefer wrote on Twitter. "Two China's Personal Information Protection Acts just came into force at the end of last year. Government agencies are required to protect citizens' information, but if the source is actually MPS, MPS will do this. "I couldn't."
Schaefer shared that the record "includes details of the minor case file," and the violation also violated the Underage Protection Act. There is.
"You would be surprised if the files for celebrities and minors weren't included," she writes.
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Lots of information on violations One of the reasons it may be included is that the Shanghai police have access to thenational data sharing system, which gives more information than the local police authorities have. Provides access to.
Peter Aitken is a FoxNews Digital reporter focused on national and global news.
