Public bodies are told to be on guard after hacker tries to sell data of one billion Chinese citizens.
President Xi Jinping has urged public bodies to "defend information security" after a hacker offered to sell stolen data of one billion Chinese citizens.
Cyber-security experts have verified that at least some of a small sample of the data offered is real. On Friday, the moderators of the website where the sale was listed - by a user called ChinaDan - posted a notice which read: "Dear Chinese users, welcome to our forum. You most likely came here because of the Shanghai police database leak. The data is no longer being sold, and posts related to this topic have been deleted."
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