Hacker Selling Data of 538 Million Weibo Users

The personal details of more than 538 million users of Chinese social network Weibo are currently available for sale online, according to ads seen by ZDNet and corroborating reports from Chinese media. From the report: In ads posted on the dark web and other places, a hacker claims to have breached Weibo in mid-2019 and obtained a dump of the company's user database. The database allegedly contains the details for 538 million Weibo users. Personal details include the likes of real names, site usernames, gender, location, and -- for 172 million users -- phone numbers. Passwords were not included, which explains why the hacker is selling the Weibo data for only $250.

How Many Are Still Alive?

[BeerFartMoron]

The personal details of more than 538 million users of Chinese social network Weibo are currently available for sale online

How many of these 538 million are still alive? I'm going to need some due diligence by the seller. Maybe several dozen field visits by them to clear things up?

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[OffTheLip]

Since China claims 3,270 deaths (cough, cough) I'd say most of them.

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[BeerFartMoron]

I'll wait for @weibo to post the full report, with some travel photos of him visiting such tourist sites as The Great Doorknob of Wuhan and the All-U-Can-Eat Bat Cafe over at the Huanan Seafood Market.

Wow who cares?

[DatbeDank]

Why hack when you can just scrape this information publicly?

Big 'ol nothing burger.

There's just one catch

[Provocateur]

It's all in Chinese, for the price of one easy payment of $250.