Hacker offers to sell 48.5 million China COVID users’ data


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The city of Shanghai’s COVID health code mobile app was hacked for the second time in less than a month, with the hacker claiming to have gotten the personal information of 48.5 million users. On Wednesday, a hacker who goes by the handle “XJP” on the forum Breach Forums offered to sell the information in exchange for $4,000. The hacker gave 47 individuals’ phone numbers, names, Chinese ID numbers, and health code statuses as an example of the data. Eleven of the 47 individuals contacted by shauntv acknowledged their inclusion in the sample, while two claimed their ID numbers were...