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2019 WeChat/QQ — 364M users exposed

2019 364.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

IDs, images, addresses, GPS, messages

Technical writeup

300M+ user data accessible via IP. Chinese IDs, images, addresses, GPS, messages. Data distributed to 17 servers. Users not following censorship.

Root cause

Unprotected access

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