Hacker Steals 23 TB of Data on 1 Billion Chinese from Shanghai Police
An anonymous hacker claims to to acquired roughly 23 terabytes of data on a billion Chinese citizens. Stolen from a Shanghai police database, if true, the theft would be one of the biggest data breaches every.
The hacker, using the handle “Chinadan” on a hacker forum has offered the data for sale for the price of 10 Bitcoin, worth around $200,000 at the time of writing.
According to “Chinadan”, the leaked information comes from the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database. He wrote:
“This database contains many TB of data and information on billions of Chinese citizens.”
To verify to interested buyers that the data is real, the user shared a sample of 750,000 records. The data not only includes basic information such as names, addresses, birthplaces, national ID numbers and mobile numbers but also holds people’s criminal records and case details.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted on his company’s intelligence and measures to assure exchange users’ security:
“Our threat intelligence detected 1 billion resident records for sell in the dark web, including name, address, national id, mobile, police and medical records from one Asian country.”
Apparently, this exploit happened because the gov developer wrote a tech blog on CSDN and accidentally included the credentials.
1 billion records of private citizens’ data. 😭 https://t.co/vPISm534Tn pic.twitter.com/FpMCGrpx08
— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) July 4, 2022
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Adding that “Binance has already stepped up verifications for users potentially affected,” he said:
“Likely due to a bug in an Elastic Search deployment by a gov agency … It is important for all platforms to enhance their security measures in this area.”
Further investigation points to a human error which led to the records being out on the street, the Binance head further explained to his Twitter followers:
“Apparently, this exploit happened because the gov developer wrote a tech blog on CSDN [China’s Software Developer Network
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