As it seems we are announcing the biggest known hack στην ιστορία του Internet: Περισσότερες από 52 εκατομμύρια προσωπικές πληροφορίες, όπως αριθμοί ταυτότητας, λεπτομέρειες κοινωνικής ασφάλισης, οικονομική κατάσταση, μισθολογικές καταστάσεις και πολλά άλλα, φέρεται να έχει υποκλαπεί από διάφορα κυβερνητικά συστήματα σε ολόκληρη την Κίνα, όπως δημοσίευσαν χθες 22 Απριλίου local media information.
China, known in the internet world for its attacks on government systems in the West, is reported to be the victim of acts hacking resulting in the largest known leakage data to date.
According to the data which the online vigilance group gave loudong.360.cn, systems that have high-risk vulnerabilities have been discovered in government social services, health ministries, hospitals in more than 30 cities across China, and as reported in ZDNet, all this appears to be just the tip of the iceberg.
Information Security Experts from loudong.360.cn said the situation could be far more serious than it appears to be, as the information that has been revealed can be used by criminals to commit theft of credit cards, but also threaten national security.
Deng Huan, an expert of loudong.360.cn, reported to Economic Information that only one security gap in the family planning department in Hubei province put the personal information of 70 million at risk, while a bug in a public health authority in Shandong has caused the same problem for 6 million children and 12 million parents in the province.
The non-existent awareness of online protection of information in many government agencies and companies is the main reason for leaks, according to a research institute.
"It is clear that local governments and agencies, such as the Social Security Administration, have failed to make sufficient investments to oversee information security," said Yan Ming, director of the Public Security Bureau's Third Research Institute.
He also said that the country needed better legislative support, as well as a system that could be held accountable by individuals or organizations responsible for information leaks.
