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According to Bloomberg, hackers claimed to have stolen the data of one billion Chinese residents after hacking into the Shanghai police database. Industry experts call it the largest
According to Bloomberg, hackers claimed to have stolen the data of one billion Chinese residents after hacking into the Shanghai police database. Industry experts call it the largest cybersecurity breach in the country’s history. According to an anonymous report on an online cybercrime forum, the person or group that claimed the attack offered to sell names, addresses, places of birth, national IDs, phone numbers and more than 23TB of data stolen from the database. criminal record information. The lawsuit An unknown hacker asked for 10 bitcoins worth about $200,000.
The extent of the alleged leak shocked the Chinese security community. Zhao Changpeng, founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, tweeted on Monday that the company had discovered the leak of information about billions of residents of “an Asian country”, potentially strengthening verification procedures, without specifying which. compromised users.
Our threat intelligence has identified 1 billion resident records for sale on the dark web, including name, address, national identity, cell phone, police and medical records from an Asian country. Most likely due to a bug in the distribution of Elastic Search by a government agency. It has an effect on…
— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) July 3, 2022
Shanghai authorities did not give a public response to the alleged attack. City police and representatives of the China Cyberspace Administration, which oversees the country’s internet, did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment. The US and other countries have repeatedly cited China as one of the world’s largest sources of cybercriminals, which they say are infiltrating systems on behalf of local institutions to search for valuable data or intellectual property.
It is unclear how the hackers accessed Shanghai Police servers. One of the most popular theories circulating online among cybersecurity experts was that a third-party cloud infrastructure partner was involved in the breach. The country’s largest external cloud services are Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei.
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