Hackers Claim Massive Theft of Chinese Citizens' Personal Data From Shanghai Police Database
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Unidentified hackers claim to have stolen data on as many as a billion Chinese residents after seemingly exploiting a bug in a Shanghai police Elasticsearch database in what could be the most significant cybersecurity breach in China’s history.
According to an anonymous post on an online cybercrime forum last week, the person or group claiming the attack has offered to sell more than 23 terabytes of stolen data from the database, including names, addresses, birthplaces, national IDs, phone numbers, and criminal case information. The unidentified hacker was asking for ten bitcoin, worth around $200,000. (Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg)
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