Chinese influencers are asking followers to be careful after the leaked information from a hacking firm with ties to Chinese authorities was released. Teacher Li, who documented the anti-lockdown protests on Twitter, saw the number of their followers drop from 1.6 million to 1.4 million. The data leak also shows the breadth of China's cyber activities, including against foreign governments.
A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week revealed.
A massive data leak originating from Chinese cybersecurity vendor I-Soon has exposed the extent of its involvement in global surveillance operations, including targeting countries such as Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and the UK.
Around 190 megabytes of information from a Chinese company were recently posted on the software and code-sharing platform GitHub. What do we know about the leak so far, and how does it fit into China's larger surveillance activities?