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Security experts have blamed the leak on third-party providers like Alibaba
China's national data-sharing system proved a weakness in the alleged breach.
A hacker claims to have stolen a billion records containing Chinese citizens' personal information from the Shanghai police department - in what cybersecurity experts are calling the largest data b...
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