Chloe Tan OSINT
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Chloe Tan OSINT
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I report on the latest open source intelligence and data leaks from China.
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Another photo I saw made me curious so I used ChatGPT to explain it to me. It shows a large scale observation networking experiment (观测组网实验)completed by the Joint Laboratory using a variety of marine systems equipment, satellites etc to study the South China Sea.
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There is a timeline in the image below from a ‘Marine High-End Equipment Joint Laboratory’ (海洋高端装备联合实验室) (which talks about the development of a submersible that can allegedly go 10,000 meters deep. The project started in 2019 and sea trial acceptance testing in 2021.
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The second photo I thought was interesting appears to be from a signing ceremony for strategic cooperation (战略合作) between the then QNLM and Wuhan University of Technology (武汉理工大学) .
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I also examined the red banner in the background and the top line seems to show QNLM (from the characters 与技术国家实验室 being exactly the second part of QNLM’s name) working with the characters “海军潜” which indicates the PLA Navy submarine or submersible (something!)
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Another huge dataset is the user data for China Union Pay, one of China’s largest payment providers and a state-owned financial services corporation. A million lines of data have been leaked, which makes you wonder how this data was obtained. #China #Crime #Data
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Another staggeringly large dataset is from Weibo, a Chinese social media App where over 538 million rows of data are available displaying mobile numbers and Weibo IDs. If the dataset is legit, this is really significant. #China #Crime #Data
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I started digging into the China and Japan databases and there are some really intriguing posts on there. One user is offering a Chinese database with 6 million rows of data about Household registration. #China #Crime #Data
October 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What’s also interesting about Leakbase that DarkForums doesn’t have is a section dedicated to China/Japan. I’m curious about this, it may just be because there are so many data leaks about China/Japan that it gets its own category. #China #Crime #Data
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Leakbase is pretty similar to DarkForums, they both offer users access to a wide variety of leaked databases that include content ranging from government citizen information to private company customer data. #China #Crime #Data
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It’s not all databases available on DarkForums, people also advertise hacking capabilities such as software exploitation and malware.
#CyberSecurity #Hacking #Vulnerabilities
October 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Another user posted Airport Surveillance data form Shanghai Suishenma Airport, with over 5 million rows of data, with things like ‘’isforeigner’’, ‘’companyname’’ and ‘’scanmethod’’. This dataset was offered for free.
#China #ChinaLeak
October 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
There seems to be quite a lot of stuff relating to China, another interesting thing I found was sensitive data from more than 20 Chinese property management companies containing information such as owners, employee ID photos and certificates. #China #ChinaLeak
October 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
One of the more interesting posts I came across was the Chinese National Health Commission database leak, with patient’s names, phone numbers and passport numbers visible in the document. This dataset is being released for free. A shocking amount of data!
#Leak #China #ChinaLeak
October 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
There are some really interesting databases posted on here, the most popular one is a Twitter leak from 2023 with over 200 million lines of data. So many companies have leaked data posted to DarkForums.
#Hacking #OSINT #Leak
October 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The database page is the most active, with over 86,000 posts. Users post the details of their databases here where other members of the forum can discuss them and access them through links to file hosting sites.
#Hacking #OSINT #Leak
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I managed to make my way onto the official Telegram channel after seeing someone had posted an invite in another group I’d managed to get into. After that, I clicked the link to the main site and started investigating.
#Hacking #OSINT #Leak
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Another interesting thing on Chang’An is a seller offering hacking services such as DDOS attacks
October 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The variety of ID cards and passports available for purchase is extensive, a buyer could choose from countries all over the world. Options include Germany, the US, Indonesia and especially mainland China.
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
There are some unusual and interesting products on the site though, like tools that allow Chinese citizens to access their domestic internet anonymously to avoid detection by the state.
October 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
After that, I registered and began my investigation.
After browsing through Chang’An, I found that most of the products being sold were bulk data sets that could be anything from real estate data for Canada, to millions of personal information for Chinese citizens that had been put up for sale.
October 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
BUT a new site is up and running using the same name.
After navigating my way into the official Chang’An Telegram channel, which is used for market updates and as a hub for users to communicate, I found the onion address that would let me get onto Chang’An.
October 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Crazy!!!

A Darkforums user is allegedly selling 7TB of data hacked from TikTok.

It is unknown if this was a hack or someone on the inside but either way this is preetty huge 💣

#ChinaLeak #TechTok #ChinaTok #TechNews #InfoSec
September 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🔥 Great Firewall of China database has been leaked!!

A user on DarkForums is allegedly selling this database containing over 600GB - not a good look for China!

#ChinaNews #ChinaData #ChinaLeak #OSINT #ChinaOSINT
September 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Over 2 million records have allegedly been leaked for theatomdata.com !!!

The Atom Data is a Chinese data analysis and AI-driven business intelligence company.

File contains unique phone numbers, customer info and more.

The CSV file is available on DarkForums 🧐 #China #ChinaLeak #News #OSINT
September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM