Hacker claims to have stolen 1 billion records of Chinese citizens

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Hacker claims to have stolen 1 billion records of Chinese citizens
A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on one billion Chinese citizens, which tech experts say, if true, would be one of the biggest data breaches in history. The anonymous internet user, identified as "ChinaDan", posted on ...

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