2022 Shanghai police database — 1B records

2022 1.0B records affected

Data compromised

Passwords

Technical writeup

Shanghai police database on Alibaba Cloud exposed without password protection for over a year. 1B records on Chinese residents. Sold on cybercrime forum.

Root cause

Misconfigured cloud dashboard; no password protection.

References

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/07/china-leak-police-database/