So apparently 1 billion Chinese were doxxed

[Beny Karachun]

"I should make a sudden and permenant vacation to a hard labor camp in Xinjiang" - that CSDN dev

 

[Akasa]

The Chinese government has been doxxing its own people since the Internet's dawn.

 

[Bengal71]

"Elastic Search" refers to AWS?

Since when Chinese government uses AWS or any other American cloud service provider?

 

[Beny Karachun]

"Elastic Search" refers to AWS?

Since when Chinese government uses AWS or any other American cloud service provider?

Not related to Amazon AWS.

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[Splurgenxs]

"Elastic Search" refers to AWS?

Since when Chinese government uses AWS or any other American cloud service provider?

Elasticsearch is only an opensource framework, like Lucene or Hadoop, the fetch can be done from any cluster as long as the data interface can interpret and convert it into an operateable format.

 

[Jazzbot]

"Elastic Search" refers to AWS?

Since when Chinese government uses AWS or any other American cloud service provider?

China has their own AWS alternative with AliBaba Cloud.

 

[Beny Karachun]

China has their own AWS alternative with AliBaba Cloud.

Yes, alicloud is the database in the breach.

 

[Bengal71]

Elasticsearch is only an opensource framework, like Lucene or Hadoop, the fetch can be done from any cluster as long as the data interface can interpret and convert it into an operateable format.

I was only referring to the use of the word "Elasti" which is extensively used by AWS for many of their products. All good, I understand now.

 

[1ndy]

How much it is in terms of dollars? $10 billion?

 

[Beny Karachun]

How much it is in terms of dollars? $10 billion?

Hacker asked for 10 bitcoin for this data base which is not much.

Not sure how to estimate its real worth though

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

How much it is in terms of dollars? $10 billion?

the asking price is $200,000.

the only interested buyers who can utilize those data are from the scam call industry, but to them the most valuable info such as real estate ownership or vehicle registration are missing from those supposed leaks, so the price could be hard to justify

 

[Beny Karachun]

the asking price is $200,000.

the only interested buyers who can utilize those data are from the scam call industry, but to them the most valuable info such as real estate ownership or vehicle registration are missing from those supposed leaks, so the price could be hard to justify

There is crime records that could be utilised towards scams

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

There is crime records that could be utilised towards scams

that makes it an even harder sell since only 118 in 100,000 Chinese have criminal records

 

[Beny Karachun]

that makes it an even harder sell since only 118 in 100,000 Chinese have criminal records

Multiply by 1 billion and it's substantial.