There is rising outrage amongst Chinese citizens with the surfacing of numerous incidents of personal data breaches parked on Chinese security systems, with the latest being a breach on Shanghai police database.
A Chinese police database that stored information on around a billion Chinese citizens was reportedly left exposed for over a year before a hacker wiped
The breach is “a big black eye” for the Chinese security apparatus, one expert says, exposing the risk of the state’s vast effort to amass citizens’ personal data.