China Police Database Was Left Open Online for Over a Year, Enabling Leak - The Wall Street Journal

Cybersecurity experts say the error enabled the theft of records of nearly 1 billion people, including senior officials, leading to a $200,000 ransom note.

What is likely one of historys largest heists of personal dataand the largest known cybersecurity breach in Chinaoccurred because of a common vulnerability that left the data open for the taking on t… [+546 chars]

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