Chinese Police Exposed 1 Billion People's Data
This is a big data loss for china. All our the country about 1 billion people's data leaked. The Financial Times noted that China is rapidly censoring news that the Shanghai police database has been hacked. The hack caused a brief uproar on Chinese social media over the weekend, but "by Monday, Weibo and Tencent's WeChat had begun censoring the topic," the report said.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the data sample released by the hackers included 750,000 records covering individual names, ID numbers, phone numbers, birthdates, and places of birth, as well as detailed summaries of crimes and incidents reported to the police. The scope of the case dates back to 1995 at the earliest and as late as 2019. After calling through the exposure information of this data sample, it was found that 5 people confirmed all data related to them, including case details that were difficult to obtain from any source other than the police; the other 4 people confirmed basic information such as their name and hang up.
Radio Free Asia quoted an alleged "Internet hotspot follower Mr. Chang who knew part of the inside story of the incident" as saying. According to the report, Mr. Chang told reporters that the incident "probably leaked last year but now sold out. Shanghai investigated Gong Doan (involved in a bribery case), the director of the Public Security Bureau who was sacked last year. It may be related, and it is most likely from Alibaba. The cloud leaked. At that time, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau’s provider of stored information was Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent was useless. At that time, Gong Doan thought that Alibaba Cloud was easier to use. Now the leaked information is true.”
What do the experts think?
Kendra Schaefer, director of technology policy research at Beijing-based Trivium China, tweeted that the data of one billion citizens were suspected of being leaked in the Shanghai National Police database. Distinguish the truth from many rumors. If the hackers claimed that the data they had in their possession did come from the Ministry of Public Security, "it would be one of the biggest and worst breaches in history," Schaeffer said.
Australian cybersecurity consultant Troy Hunt told The Wall Street Journal that he was cautious about the hacker claims. Hunter said that China has a population of 1.4 billion, and the hackers claimed to have obtained personal information involving 1 billion people. The database is extremely large, which has caused some doubts.
Some questions that may never be answered are also raised:
Are these data credible? If it was the data that the Shanghai Public Security Bureau really had, how was it leaked? Was it stolen by hackers or human security negligence? Who is this data in the hands of now? How will the data breach affect individual Chinese citizens? What about China as a whole?
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