Largest breach ever?

In early July, a hacker reportedly offered to sell the personal data of 1 billion Chinese nationals for $200,000. If true, this would be the largest data breach ever (link).

Reportedly, lax security measures again are the culprit. In this case, there appears to have been an unsecured web address that offered unrestricted access to the data.

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