US EditionResearchers Discover 8.7 Billion Chinese Records Exposed Online
The exposed cluster contained personal and corporate data likely aggregated over time by data brokers and was hosted by a bulletproof provider before being secured.
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China has suffered one of the largest data breaches in world history. Cybernews analysts estimate the compromised data volume to be nearly 9 billion records. The data resided in an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster consisting of more than 160 indexes. In total, the data contained approximately 8.7 billion rows, the majority of which related to Chinese citizens. Photo: Cybernews... The post "China's Largest Leak: Data of 9 Billion Users, Includin…
8.7 billion records spilled: Inside the massive Chinese data leak
The exposed Elasticsearch cluster, which contained over 160 indices, held billions of primarily Chinese records, ranging from national citizen ID numbers to various business records. The massive leak is among the largest single Elasticsearch exposures ever recorded.
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