A police database in Shanghai, China, has been breached and those who are claiming responsibility are already selling the stolen data online. — Dreamstime/TNS
BEIJING: A hacker claiming to have stolen personal data from hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens is now selling the information online.
A sample of 750,000 entries posted online by the hacker showed citizens’ names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays and police reports they had filed.
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