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China Police Database Was Left Open Online for Over a Year, Enabling Leak

July 7, 2022
Source: slashdot.org slashdot.org
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on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:22PM from the closer-look dept. What is likely one of history's largest heists of personal data -- and the largest known cybersecurity breach in China -- occurred because of a common vulnerability that left the data open for the taking on the internet , say cybersecurity experts who discovered the security flaw earlier this year. WSJ: The Shanghai police records -- containing the names, government ID numbers, phone numbers and incident reports of nearly 1 billion Chinese citizens -- were stored securely, according to the cybersecurity experts. But a dashboard for managing and accessing the...
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