Shanghai — A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on 1-billion Chinese citizens, which tech experts say, if true, would be one of the biggest data breaches in history.
“Databases contain information on 1-billion Chinese national residents and several billion case records, including: name, address, birthplace, national ID number, mobile number, all crime/case details.”The Shanghai government and police department did not respond to requests for comment on Monday. He said on Twitter that a leak could have happened due to “a bug in an Elastic Search deployment by a [government] agency”, without saying if he was referring to the Shanghai police case.
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