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Proof: China, Africa boost law enforcement ties in crackdown on cross-border cybercrime

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T22:10:59Z","headline":"China, Africa boost law enforcement ties in crackdown on cross-border cybercrime","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"scmp","url":"https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3369660/china-and-africa-boost-law-enforcement-ties-crackdown-cross-border-cybercrime?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage","v":1}

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SHA-256

5bad73b925350b016bf91445f7688760d806fad6017914d7a1d50df51d089f3f

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969771, mined 2026-10-03 22:38 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 22:15 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 00:00 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-5bad73b92535.json prints 5bad73b925350b016bf91445f7688760d806fad6017914d7a1d50df51d089f3f. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-5bad73b92535.json and headline-5bad73b92535.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-5bad73b92535.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.