[10] Prominent people in the database include prime ministers Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison,[2] the President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen and their families.
[8] Around 10,000 people and organisations from India were also on the list, including senior Indian diplomats such as Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Sanjeev Singla, policymakers such as Amitabh Kant, academics such as Romila Thapar, and sportspeople such as Sachin Tendulkar.
[14] A threat intelligence organisation published a report on Zhenhua Data's operation and found a number of monitoring systems that were publicly accessible.
[15] The report found real-time monitoring of social media such as LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and online forums, and discovered an "Internet Big Data Military Intelligence System".
[16] The firm also found keywords that were being used to target US Embassy-supported activists in Hong Kong, which included political organisations, famous events and protestors.