Hacker Puts 23TB Database Claimed to Contain Personal Data of Millions of Chinese Citizens for Sale

A hacker who has claimed to have stolen the data of a billion Chinese citizens has begun selling the data online. The alleged 23TB database was advertised on a forum late last month and picked up by cybersecurity experts this week. A sample of 7,50,000 entries shows citizens' names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays and police reports fil...

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