Huge leak of data on China's internet censorship technology
A huge trove of data relating to the Great Firewall, China's internet censorship system, was leaked. Data claimed to total around 600GB was released, and the leaked material revealed how Chinese companies export censorship technology abroad.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Censorship technology data claimed to total around 600GB
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- China
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Timeline
- The huge leak revealed signs that Chinese companies were exporting internet censorship technology abroad.
- The release of data claimed to be around 600GB of Great Firewall material came to light.
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