China: 1 billion people's personal data leaked! Hackers on the dark web asking for 10 BTC, Binance founder: Government developers mistakenly planted confidential information

A screenshot circulating on the messaging app Telegram shows that dark web hackers are selling the Shanghai national police database for 10 BTC, allegedly containing terabytes of data and information on Chinese citizens. The downloadable data sample includes 750,000 records with personal names, ID numbers, phone numbers, birthdays, birthplaces, and police records. According to The Wall Street Journal, these records cover cases of all sizes, ranging from minor to major incidents, with data ranging from 1995 to as recent as 2019.

Binance's Zhao Changpeng: Government Developers Mistakenly Planted Confidential Data

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng stated that the recent security breach incident was clearly due to government developers who mistakenly included confidential data in a technical log posted on the Chinese developer network CSDN, leading to the leakage of private information of one billion citizens.

Apparently, this exploit happened because the gov developer wrote a tech blog on CSDN and accidentally included the credentials.

1 billion records of private citizens' data. 😭 https://t.co/vPISm534Tn pic.twitter.com/FpMCGrpx08

— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) July 4, 2022

Zhao Changpeng also emphasized that all platforms should enhance hacker detection and prevention measures, as well as implement backup mobile authentication codes in case user accounts are compromised. Binance has already implemented verification measures based on this incident.