- Apr 21, 2016
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Hong Kong may be going through one of the most significant data breaches in its history after two computers holding personal data of 3.7 million voters have been stolen.
The report are by the Hong Kong Registration and Electoral Office, and it seems the computers were taken from a locked room at the AsiaWorld-Expo on Lantau, the South China Morning Post reports.
The stolen data includes personal information on voters, from ID card numbers, addresses, and contact numbers, making for a rather important trove of information that could be worth a fortune on the dark web. The office says this data is encrypted and should be safe, but that isn't really any guarantee that the information won't leak or that the encryption won't be broken.
The devices also stored the names of the 1,200 electors on the Election Committee. While these names are publicly available, the rest of the information isn't, and it's sensitive enough to cause quite a stir.
Read more: Two Laptops with Hong Kong's 3.7 Million Voters' Data Stolen
The report are by the Hong Kong Registration and Electoral Office, and it seems the computers were taken from a locked room at the AsiaWorld-Expo on Lantau, the South China Morning Post reports.
The stolen data includes personal information on voters, from ID card numbers, addresses, and contact numbers, making for a rather important trove of information that could be worth a fortune on the dark web. The office says this data is encrypted and should be safe, but that isn't really any guarantee that the information won't leak or that the encryption won't be broken.
The devices also stored the names of the 1,200 electors on the Election Committee. While these names are publicly available, the rest of the information isn't, and it's sensitive enough to cause quite a stir.
Read more: Two Laptops with Hong Kong's 3.7 Million Voters' Data Stolen
