What do Prime Minister Scott Morrison, tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and pop star Natalie Imbruglia have in common? They all appear in a leaked Chinese database collecting information on thousands of Australians.
What do Prime Minister Scott Morrison, tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and pop star Natalie Imbruglia have in common?
It has 2.4 million entries, of which just over 10 per cent were accessed and restored by cyber security experts from Canberra company Internet 2.0, which was handed a leaked version of the database. Several prominent figures are among the 35,000 Australians discovered in the restored part of the leaked database, including state and federal politicians, military officers, diplomats, academics, civil servants, business executives, engineers, journalists, lawyers and accountants.
"It seems to be that the database is comprised of what we call open source data. That comes from social media sites, it could be from news sites and blog sites," Ms Falk said. "This suggests that there's almost certainly one in Australia. So that means somewhere in Australia, there is a Chinese state-owned company that is sucking up data from across Australia and feeding it into China's intelligence service.""The worldwide web is worldwide … so there is no reason to suggest they would need to be located in Australia at all," she said.Ms Falk said there could be several motivations behind collecting the data.
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