Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on a billion Chinese citizens from a Shanghai police database in a leak that, if confirmed, could be one of the larges.
An unidentified computer hacker successfully obtained a massive database from a police network in Shanghai, a database that includes records held by the security organization on an estimated 1 billion Chinese citizens.
“ChinaDan,” a Chinese hacker, claims to possess the phone numbers, names, and ages of 1 billion Chinese citizens. Although the scale of the leak seems huge, experts say many online advertising companies already get the same type of data when browsing online.
An unknown hacker has claimed to have stolen personal information on one billion Chinese residents from the Shanghai police in what could be one of the biggest data breaches in history.