The Chinese government has recently made a series of strong moves to keep the personal data of citizens from escaping across its borders, but it may all have been for nothing if the reports of a recent data leak are accurate. The data of 1 billion China citizens, or about two-thirds of the country’s entire population, appears to be available for sale on an underground forum. The hacker claims that they have 23 terabytes of data on China citizens filched from the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database. These records include full names, addresses, birthplace, national ID number, and mobile phone…