HONG KONG (AP) — Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on 1 billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database in a leak that, if confirmed, could be one of the largest data breaches in history.

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The Russian scooter-sharing service Whoosh has confirmed a data breach after hackers started to sell a database containing the details of 7.2 million customers on a hacking forum. Whoosh is Russia's ...

RaidForums, the notorious hacking and data leak forum seized and shut down by the authorities back in April 2022, is – perhaps surprisingly – at the centre of ...