If you're not following this, you should be: word on the social media street is that China's police force (MPS – Shanghai) database was hacked, with the personal information and case records of 1 billion citizens, and the records are for sale on Telegram – 23TB of data. 1/7 https://t.co/a59KB8JBHF

— Kendra Schaefer 凯娜 (@kendraschaefer) July 4, 2022

Two, China's Personal Information Protection Law just came out late last year. It requires gov bodies to protect the info of citizens, which if the source is indeed MPS, MPS has failed to do. 3/7https://t.co/Zb0yLOYPyQ

— Kendra Schaefer 凯娜 (@kendraschaefer) July 4, 2022

But wait, there's more: The records also allegedly contain details on case files of minors. So that would be a violation of the Minor Protection Law. Would be surprised if they don't also contain files on celebs and minor officials. 5/7

— Kendra Schaefer 凯娜 (@kendraschaefer) July 4, 2022

It's unclear who's at fault — some of the internet comments state one of the developers posted an access key on his blog, which was then exploited by the hackers. In any case, heads will roll over this one. 7/7

— Kendra Schaefer 凯娜 (@kendraschaefer) July 4, 2022

The hacker released 3 sample datasets: 1st appears to be delivery addresses, as some entries contain directions on where to put the parcel; 2nd appears to be police call records; 3rd is an unknown dataset of identifying information like ID, address, height, gender, etc.

— Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 (@ZeyiYang) July 3, 2022