Sometimes a non-incident seems newsworthy. Today, I stumbled over this Xinhua report from April 23, responding to another report that I had never seen either, it seems:
There has been no data breach of the social security network, a senior official said on Thursday following media reports.
The personal information of tens of millions of people was deemed “at risk” after the social security systems of more than 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities on the Chinese mainland were found to have authorization issues, according to Loudong.360.cn, an online security solutions company.
Loudong said ID numbers, income, house ownership, and social security information were most vulnerable.
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