In an explosive data “major database leak” of official records has uncovered a register of 1.95 million members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), many of whom are now living and working all over the world, including Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The database of registered CCP members reveals how Beijing's "malign influence" now stretches into almost every corner of British life, including defence firms, banks and pharmaceutical giants, an Australian newspaper reported.

The report said, "Most alarmingly, some of its members, who swear a solemn oath to 'guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout my life...and never betray the Party', are understood to have secured jobs in British consulates."

The data lists names, party positions, date of birth, national identification number, ethnicity and — in some cases — their telephone number and party position.

According to the list of data, the companies which are being secretly infiltrated by CCP members include manufacturers such as Boeing and Volkswagen, pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and AstraZeneca, and banks like ANZ and HSBC.

"It is believed to be the first leak of its kind in the world," The Australian journalist and Sky News host Sharri Markson said.

Around 79,000 CCP branches have been set up inside western companies where members if called on, are answerable directly to the Communist Party and President Xi himself, the reports said.

The data was reportedly extracted from a server in Shanghai in 2016 by Chinese dissidents, who used it for counterintelligence purposes. It was later leaked to the international bipartisan group the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, before being sent to the international consortium of four media organisations--The Australian, the UK`s Mail on Sunday, Belgium`s De Standaard, and a Swedish editor.

The Australian did not name the individual members on the list.

The assistant has even previously helped organise parliamentary delegations. Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been using a Chinese government hiring agency called the Shanghai Foreign Agency Service Department to employ all its local staff in China for at least the past five years, The Australian reported.

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