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Hacker Claims To Have Stolen Data of 1 Billion Chinese From Police (nikkei.com) 39

A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on one billion Chinese citizens, which tech experts say, if true, would be one of the biggest data breaches in history. From a report: The anonymous internet user, identified as "ChinaDan," posted on hacker forum Breach Forums last week offering to sell the more than 23 terabytes (TB) of data for 10 bitcoin BTC=, equivalent to about $200,000. "In 2022, the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database was leaked. This database contains many TB of data and information on Billions of Chinese citizen," the post said. "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." Reuters was unable to verify the authenticity of the post. The Shanghai government and police department did not respond to requests for comment on Monday.
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Hacker Claims To Have Stolen Data of 1 Billion Chinese From Police

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  • by RogueWarrior65 ( 678876 ) on Monday July 04, 2022 @09:06AM (#62672062)

    If my math is correct, every person can be boiled down to ~23k or something like 11 pages of text.

    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      10 BTC seems rather cheap too. If this is true then this guy is in serious danger, especially if he lives in China. The police and the government will be after him.

      • by Plugh ( 27537 )
        Not exactly a pro-gamer move to demand payment in traceable Bitcoin. Has this hacker not heard about Monero?
      • by hdyoung ( 5182939 ) on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:18AM (#62672356)
        If he’s in China, he’s an idiot. He’ll probably be shot. If he’s in the US, he’s probably safe. No extradition treaty and China doesnt seem to be doing any overseas assassinations, unlike Russia.

        On the other hand, if he has family members on the mainland, they’re gonna pay dearly for this.
        • by Anonymous Coward

          China doesnt seem to be doing any overseas assassinations, unlike Russia.

          Or the US, and Israel

        • by schwit1 ( 797399 )

          "If he’s in the US, he’s probably safe."

          Do you think the CCP won't pressure its US sock puppet's(Apple, Google, Disney, etc) to find him and out him? And then the DOJ will take it from there.

          • The US is not in the habit of extraditing people to China, even when pressured by the FAANGs. Criminals over there tend to get loaded into specialized “correction vans” and only their organs come back out. He might get outed, but he would probably be allowed to live like a normal person. Any relatives in China are another matter.
        • > If he’s in the US, he’s probably safe.

          If he already works for the CIA and this was one of the projects he was assigned to work on, he's probably looking at a promotion.

  • Responsible (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Joce640k ( 829181 ) on Monday July 04, 2022 @09:14AM (#62672076) Homepage

    The responsible thing to do would be to release it so the public can see what sort of profiles the government is creating.

    But... the needs of the one outweighs the needs of the many, right?

    • Maybe some rich person could step up and do it.

      • Why would they need to be rich? Doesn't this place keep telling me bitcoins are worthless?

        • They may be worthless but they're not valueless.

          Yet.

          • Bitcoin had value when it was the revolutionary new idea that made decentralized permissionless ledgers possible. That in itself was not enough to be usable as âoecurrencyâ, despite the title of the whitepaper. It was neither fungible nor (as a result) fully censorship-resistant; in assisted, ASICs centralized mining far beyond the intended âoeone CPU, one voteâ. Fortunately, the Stone Soup of Open Source meant BTCâ(TM)s unwillingness to major changes (âoehard forksâ,
    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      If they cared about that sort of thing they could release data of people who give permission, with certain parts like current address redacted. Journalists have experience of that kind of thing.

    • Only asking for $200k... that's barely "cover my expenses" money if this hacker has to flee for life or endure a legal fight at some point. You do that kind of hack on China, there's big guns coming for you.

  • LOLMAZPWNAGE!

    Maybe we could sell the People of China some Freedom Phones?

  • 1 billion criminals.

  • Seems like that would be a valuable data set to have from China considering they own petabytes of data on American and American allies' citizens. We could extrapolate the dimensionality of their security services and determine if any of those same metrics are used here at home on "American Dissidents / Patriots". I bet you we'd even find evidence of spies on there. ~Of all the ah f*ck it ...
  • The responsible thing to do would be to release it so the public can see what sort of profiles the government is creating. But... the needs of the one outweighs the needs of the many, right?

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