Hacker offers to sell data of 48.5 million users of Shanghai’s Covid app


A police officer watching over a road junction with traffic lights, in Shanghai. The hacker with the username as ‘XJP’ posted an offer to sell the data – of 48.5 million users of a Covid health code mobile app run by the city of Shanghai – for US$4,000 (RM17,777) on the hacker forum Breach Forums on Aug 10. — AP

BEIJING: A hacker has claimed to have obtained the personal information of 48.5 million users of a Covid health code mobile app run by the city of Shanghai, the second claim of a breach of the Chinese financial hub’s data in just over a month.

The hacker with the username as “XJP” posted an offer to sell the data for US$4,000 (RM17,777) on the hacker forum Breach Forums on Wednesday.

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