The hacker has declared breaching the Shanghai police server, offering for sale personal data of 1 billion Chinese individuals.

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Unnamed hackers have announced possession of personal data belonging to approximately 1 billion Chinese citizens. Security experts assert that if the hackers' claim is accurate, this would constitute the worst security breach in the history of the populous nation. The data, totaling 23 terabytes, includes real names, addresses, places of birth, ID numbers, phone numbers, as well as medical information and criminal records of numerous individuals. To acquire such vast amounts of data, the hacker group targeted the resident information database of the Shanghai police force.

The hacker group has declared the sale of this massive data trove for 10 BTC, which, at the current exchange rate, equates to approximately $200,000 USD.

This incident has sent shockwaves through the Chinese cybersecurity community. In a related move, Binance CEO Zhao Changpeng revealed that Binance's security personnel have traced the origin of this data theft “from an Asian country,” without specifying which nation.

The authorities in Shanghai, including city police representatives and China's Cyberspace Administration, have yet to issue any comments on this incident.

According to Bloomberg

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