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Over 4 billion user records leaked in "largest breach ever" - here's what you need to know


Billions of documents containing sensitive data exposed online

A huge dataset has been discovered unsecured online by researchers This contained roughly 4 billion records - including personal information The data could potentially be part of a surveillance effort targeting Chinese citizens The dataset primarily consists of Chinese customers and users from a range of different sources, in what the Cybernews research teams believed is a “meticulously gathered and maintained” database designed to build “comprehensive behavioral, economic, and social profiles of nearly any Chinese citizen.” You may like This could be part of a surveillance project, researchers argue, and there are plenty of ways that a threat actor could exploit this information, such as social engineering attacks, identity theft, fraud or even blackmail.

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