Crypto news outlet 8BTC recently reported that the private customer details of 300,000 users from Jiurong, a China-based automobile finance platform, were compromised when a hacker infiltrated the company’s database. The hacker is now attempting to sell the stolen data for 1 BTC on the dark web and the information includes the phone numbers and government-issued ID numbers of Jiurong’s clients. The hacker who goes by the name “Lone Wolf” is also promising to provide additional access to the company’s servers as part of the sale and the listing says “if people are interested to lay hands upon these data, I could provide technical support throughout it.” This is not the first instance of private data being sold for cryptocurrency in China. In August of 2018, a hacker managed to acquire 130 million files from the Huazhu Hotel Group and the information was sold for 8 Bitcoin. This data breach was the largest to occur in China over the past 5 years. (RS)
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