The dark web sells the data of 1 billion people in China. It's been called the biggest hack in history.

Unknown hackers hacked the Shanghai police database. If this information is confirmed, then the current

The leak would be the largest in the country's history.

It is still unknown who the kidnapper was -person or group of persons. The unknown user claimed to have access to a 23 terabyte database of people's names, addresses, places of birth, telephone numbers, national identifiers and information about criminal cases.

The database can be purchased for 10 bitcoins. At the current exchange rate, this is approximately equal to $200,000.

The announcement of the sale was found on a forum in the dark web. Shanghai authorities have not publicly responded to the allegation of a data breach and have not commented on the information.

The event was also reported by the CEO of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, Zhao Changpeng. He said that the company drew attention to the leak of data about a billion citizens of “one Asian country.”

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