Online store exposed millions of Chinese citizen IDs


A security researcher said he discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers spilling online after an e-commerce store left its database exposed to the internet. Viktor Markopoulos, a security researcher working for CloudDefense.ai, said he found the database belonging to Zhefengle, a China-based e-commerce store for importing goods from overseas. The database contained more than 3.3 million orders spanning 2015 through 2020, Markopoulos said, but had not been protected with a password.

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Source: TechCrunch