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The crypto exchange of Binance<\/a> has stepped up its verification of users potentially affected by a data breach involving over 1 billion citizens of the People’s Republic of China.<\/p>\n Binance CEO, CZ<\/a>, further stated on Twitter<\/a> that the exchange’s threat intelligence had ‘detected 1 billion resident records for sell in the dark web, including name, address, national id, mobile, police and medical records from one Asian country.’<\/p>\n He explained that the data breach resulted from ‘a bug in an Elastic Search deployment by a government agency’ in the affected country.<\/p>\n As a result, the crypto exchange was stepping up verifications for users potentially affected. He also stressed the urgency of the matter and requested all ‘platforms to enhance their security measures.’<\/p>\n According to a report<\/a> by Reuters, the data breach resulted from the Shanghai National Police database being leaked. Consequently, the hacker has the personal information of one billion citizens of China.<\/p>\n Additionally, the hacker is looking to sell the 23 terabytes of personal information on the dark web for 10 Bitcoins<\/a> or roughly $200k. The hacker, using the name ‘ChinaDan’ on the dark web, also shared a post explaining how he got a hold of the information. He said:<\/p>\n In 2022, the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database was leaked. This database contains many TB of data and information on Billions of Chinese citizen.<\/p>\nBinance to Step Up Verifications for Users Potentially Affected by the Data Breach.<\/h2>\n
Hacker Wants 10 Bitcoin on the Dark Web for 23 Terabytes of Personal Information.<\/h2>\n
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