23 TB for a billion people allows for 20 kb per person. For individual case files that ranges from 1949 to 2021.
What's more, somehow this supposedly massive data is stored in clear text json format. Guess they never needed to do any queries on it?
Yeah, that is bs!
The json, although I am not a programmer, at least I know what that is. At least I think I know, lol.
Do they mean that the data from a Chinese police database was accessed via the javascript?
Police databases, are not exactly suppose to be that modern, with those legacy systems they probably using all those old languages.
There opens a possibility that the hacker did the data dump, then rebuilt the database, using more modern tools, like more recent programming languages and databases. But that opens the question whether this is all make-believe to begin with.
Each entry, is probably an object. So the attack got all the objects, and made it into a more accessible object. Maybe they did not know what the original object was like in the first place?
This story really does fit into the smear campaign of Chinese tech being unreliable spread by the Americans.
This javascript makes no sense. Sounds like bs.