Data are Liability: Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum

A threat actor has taken to a forum for news and discussion of data breaches with an offer to sell what they assert is a database containing records of over a billion Chinese civilians – allegedly stolen from the Shanghai Police.

Over the weekend, reports started to surface of a post to a forum at Breached.to. The post makes the following claim:

In 2022, the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database was leaked. This database contains many TB of data and information on Billions of Chinese citizens.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31986441

Nothing tracks like a police state.

And nothing leaks like a police state.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/shanghai_police_database_for_sell/

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