A hacker under the pseudonym ChinaDan posted on a specialized forum stating that he was willing to sell the Shanghai National Police database he stole for 10 bitcoins or $200,000.

He said he got all the information this year. The stolen database is filled with terabytes of information on a huge number of Chinese citizens. The hacker's words were later officially confirmed. Representatives of the Chinese authorities said that now under the threat of leakage to third parties are confidential information of more than one billion citizens of China.

The head of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance Changpeng Zhao also made a confirmation. He pointed out that a special algorithm for the site, which provides security, found the appearance of a darknet database with personal information of individuals from "one Asian country. The exchange is now checking on its customers whose data has been put up for sale.

Cryptocurrency industry experts believe that this crime will have consequences. It is likely that the stolen data will be used for phishing attacks to steal access keys to accounts or sites of centralized exchanges.