China has rapidly censored news of the alleged hacking of a Shanghai police database, potentially compromising the personal data of more than one billion people, the Financial Times reports.
An anonymous hacker under the name ChinaDan advertised the data on an online cybercrime forum in late June, claiming the entire file for sale contained multiple terabytes of details, including names, addresses, IDs, phone numbers, and criminal records. He quoted a price of 10 bitcoin, or $200,000, FT wrote.
