An unknown hacker is spotted selling a database containing over one billion records – in a popular underground marketplace for 10 bitcoin.
The details include PII like the names, addresses, national IDs, phone numbers, and even the police and medical records. It’s reported that the hacker obtained this information from Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database, thus the information belonging to the Chinese.
One Billion Records For Sale
Hackers stealing data through some exploit and selling them on underground forums is common. We’ve seen multiple instances in the past where hackers stole records of millions of people and sold them for money.
But now, we see, maybe the world’s biggest deal ever. As the CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao pointed out, “ Our threat intelligence detected 1 billion resident records for sell on the dark web “.
Our threat intelligence 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. Likely due to a bug in an Elastic Search deployment by a gov agency. This has impact on … — CZ ???? Binance (@cz_binance) July 3, 2022
