Chinese police records on nearly 1 billion people were left exposed online for over a year, leading to $200,000 ransom note, cybersecurity experts found
The Shanghai police records—containing the names, government ID numbers, phone numbers and incident reports of—were stored securely, according to the cybersecurity experts.
But a dashboard for managing and accessing the data was set up on a public web address and left open without a password, which allowed anyone with relatively basic technical knowledge to waltz in and copy or steal the trove of information, they said.
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