"Online Store Exposed Millions of Chinese Citizen IDs"

Viktor Markopoulos, a CloudDefense.ai security researcher, discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers leaking online after an e-commerce store left its database exposed on the Internet. According to Markopoulos, the database belongs to Zhefengle, a China-based e-commerce store used to import goods from other countries. Markopoulos found that the database contained over 3.3 million orders from 2015 to 2020 but was not password protected. The order database included customer shipping addresses, phone numbers, and the customers' government-issued resident identity card numbers. This article continues to discuss the exposure of millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers by an online store.

TechCrunch reports "Online Store Exposed Millions of Chinese Citizen IDs"

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