Over 200 million records of Chinese Citizens for Sale on the Darkweb

During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found threat actors selling 200 million+ Records of Chinese Citizens.

During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found multiple posts where threat actors are offering for sale alleged data leaks related to Chinese citizens. Data might have been stolen from multiple popular Chinese services, including Gongan County, Weibo, and QQ.

Gong’an County is a county in southern Hubei province, People’s Republic of China, bordering Hunan to the south. It is under the administration of Jingzhou City. A threat actor is offering sample data of alleged 999 household registrations of Chinese citizens from Gong’an county as a proof of the hack. Data belonging 7.3 million Chinese citizens are available for sale, the records include Id, Sex, Name, Birth, Mobile, Address, and Code number.

Experts also noticed the sale of data related to users of the Weibo platform.

“The threat actor was selling 41.8 million records on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum.” reads the post published by Cyble.

“During the analysis of the sample data, it was noticed that the weibo_id and respective mobile number were listed in an excel sheet. The threat actor is selling details of 41.8 Million chinese users on the darkweb.”

Cyble researchers also discovered a threat actor offering records belonging to users of the popular Tencent-owned QQ instant messaging software service and web portal. The threat actor is selling details of 192 Million Chinese users on the darkweb.

The analysis of the sample data revealed the presence of the qq number and respective mobile number in an excel sheet.

The overall availability of records related to Chinese citizens is over 200 million.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, China)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.