Hacker sells data of a billion people in China for 10 bitcoins

The hacker said he hacked into the computer systems of the Shanghai police and obtained the data of one billion

Chinese citizens. If true, the event would be one of the largest data breaches in history. Discuss

Last week an anonymous internet userUnder the username ChinaDan posted a message on the hacker forum Breach Forums offering to sell more than 23 TB of data for 10 bitcoins, which is equivalent to about $200,000.

The hacker claims that the databases containinformation about one billion people in China and several billion cases, including: name, address, place of birth, national identification number, mobile phone number, all details of the crime.

Zhao Changpeng, CEO of Binance, has alreadysaid that the cryptocurrency exchange stepped up user checks after the platform specialists discovered the data of a billion Chinese in the dark web.