Leaked database shows Chinese firm watching over 2 million people, including top Indian leaders, diplomats

As a tensions between India and China over the Line of Actual Control peaked over the last week, a Shenzen-based tech firm is monitoring over 10,000 individuals and organisations, including the Indian Prime Minister and President, across the world, multiple media reports said.

According to a copy of the database that was left unsecured on the Internet and retrieved by an Australian cybersecurity consultancy, China’s Zhenhua Data Information Technology Co, which has ties with the Chinese government, and the country’s Communist Party, has stocked a global database of “foreign targets”.

The list includes President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi and their families, Cabinet Ministers Rajnath Singh, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Nirmala Sitharaman,