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Sead Fadilpašić

Massive COMB data breach reveals info on over a billion people — here's what we know about "compilation of many breaches"

China.

Someone is combining information on Chinese citizens leaked in different data breaches into a single database, and has so far made more than 1.2 billion records. 

This compilation of many breaches (COMB) contains plenty of sensitive user information, including phone numbers, postal addresses, ID card numbers, and more.

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