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…