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Leaked personal information of 1 billion Chinese nationals for sale for 10 Bitcoins – Hacker allegations stolen from Shanghai police – Security Bitcoin News
A hacker claims to have stolen the personal data of one billion Chinese citizens from the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) and sells it for 10 bitcoins. “This database contains many TBs of data and information on billions of Chinese citizens.”
23 terabytes of data on one billion Chinese nationals for sale for 10 Bitcoins
An anonymous hacker has claimed to have stolen around 23 terabytes of data on one billion Chinese citizens from a Shanghai police database. Experts say that if this is true, this will be one of the biggest data breaches in history.
The data is offered for sale for 10 bitcoins. At the time of writing, this sum is around $ 197,806.
On a hacker forum, an anonymous user who used the “Chinadan” handle offered the data for sale on Thursday. The user claimed that the information was leaked from the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database. “This database contains many TBs of data and information on billions of Chinese nationals,” the post said.
The leaked data includes names, addresses, places of birth, national ID numbers, mobile numbers, as well as crime and case details.
The user shared a sample of 750,000 records to let interested buyers verify that the sales data is not fake.
On Monday, Binance chief Zhao Changpeng (CZ) tweeted:
Our threat intelligence discovered 1 billion citizen records for sale in the dark web, including name, address, national ID, mobile, police and medical records from one Asian country.
“Probably due to an error in an Elastic Search distribution by a government agency … It is important for all platforms to improve their security measures in this area,” he continued, adding that “Binance has already stepped up verifications for users potentially affected. “
The Binance chief further explained on Monday: “Apparently this exploitation happened because the government developer wrote a technology blog on CSDN [China’s Software Developer Network] and accidentally included the credentials. 1 billion records of private citizens’ data. “
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