On August 11, 2024, an individual with the ID: Fenice released data on Tencent's 1.4 billion users in a dark web forum, claiming that the compressed data was 44GB in size and would expand to 500GB upon decompression. Upon analysis, it was confirmed that the data was genuine but outdated, with approximately 700 million valid records, primarily consisting of QQ numbers, mobile phone numbers, and email addresses.