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BEIJING (dpa-AFX) - A hacking group in China has claimed to have access to the personal data of around 1 billion Chinese citizens from the Shanghai National Police database, the Wall Street Journal

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on one billion Chinese citizens, w...

Analysts say the reports are likely true, and the timing of their release is no accident.

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Personal information allegedly leaked from Shanghai police database would be one of biggest data breaches in history

The hacker posted a sample of the data on a forum and asked for 10 Bitcoin – roughly $200,000 – for the full trove of names, addresses and other personal information.

The data was apparently grabbed from the Shanghai National Police database and is now available to buy on the dark web for 10 bitcoins.

A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on 1 billion Chinese citizens. If true, tech experts say it would be one of the biggest data breaches in history. The anonymous Internet user, identified as ChinaDan, posted on hacker forum Breach Forums last week offering to sell the more than 23 terabytes (TB) of data for 10 bitcoin.

The data was apparently grabbed from the Shanghai National Police database and is now available to buy on the dark web for 10 bitcoins.

The hacker offers to sell data for 10 bitcoins.