Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on 1 billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database. Data purportedly includes names, addresses, national ID numbers and mobile phone numbers. Experts said the breach, if confirmed, would be the biggest in history. One person was listed as having been born in 2020, with their age listed as “1,” suggesting that information on minors was included in the data. The data leak initially sparked discussion on Chinese social media platforms such as Weibo, but censors have since moved to block keyword searches for “Shanghai data leak’s “Data Leak” The leak is “potentially incredibly embarrassing to the Chinese government” and the political harm would probably outweigh damage to the people whose data was leaked. . . .
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