Data of 800 mn Chinese people exposed, 2nd massive data breach in 2 months

China is facing another massive data leak of its citizens as a huge database of at least 800 million records containing faces and vehicle license plates has been exposed online.

The exposed data, now disappeared from the internet, belongs to a tech company called Xinai Electronics based in Hangzhou district, reports TechCrunch.

In volume, the cyber heist is second to another massive data leak of 1 billion records from a Shanghai police database last month.