Hackers are allegedly targeting a database of the Shanghai National Police in a cybersecurity breach that resulted in the theft of the personal information of Chinese citizens (SHGA). Over 1 billion Chinese residents lost personal information due to a security breach that happened sometime in 2022. Both the open and dark webs have now seen sales of the data in which names, addresses, government ID numbers, phone numbers, and other private information are included. Our threat intelligence detected 1 billion resident records for sell in the dark web, including name, address, national id, mobile, police and medical records from one asian country. Likely due to a bug in an Elastic Search deployment by a gov agency. This has impact on … — CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) July 3, 2022 Binance Threat Intelligence Systems A hacker going by the alias ChinaDan is offering to sell the stolen data for 10 bitcoin ($200,000). ChinaDan posted the offer on Breached to a hacking community frequented by black hat hackers. The exchange’s threat intelligence systems discovered that 1 billion resident records from “one Asian country” were placed up for sale on the dark web, according to a post made over the weekend by Zhao. According to the exchange, it strengthened its verification procedures for persons impacted by the incident. Apparently, this exploit happened because the gov developer wrote a tech blog on CSDN and accidentally included the credent...
