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Huge Chinese Database of Faces and License Plates Leaked: Over 800M Records

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* Representing one of the biggest known data security lapses of the year by scale, second to a massive data leak of 1 billion records from a Shanghai police database in June.

* Exposed data belongs to a tech company called Xinai Electronics.

* The company builds systems for controlling access for people and vehicles to workplaces, schools, construction sites, and parking garages across China. Its website touts its use of facial recognition for a range of purposes beyond building access, including personnel management, like payroll, monitoring employee attendance and performance, while its cloud-based vehicle license plate recognition system allows drivers to pay for parking in unattended garages that are managed by staff remotely.

* Security researcher Anurag Sen found the company's exposed database on an Alibaba-hosted server in China.