Hacker Offers to Sell Police Database with Info on 1 Billion Chinese Citizens

In what may be one of the largest known breaches of Chinese personal data, a hacker has offered to sell a Shanghai police database that could contain information on perhaps one billion Chinese citizens. The unidentified hacker, who goes by the name ChinaDan, posted in an online forum that the database for sale included terabytes of information on a billion Chinese.

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