If you want other people’s personal information such as loan records, express address and real-time positioning of mobile phones, as long as you ask for it in the QQ group, someone will respond. Buyers can get these accurate and private personal information after transferring transactions through WeChat. In May this year, the police in Heze, Shandong Province cracked a customized case of selling personal information, arrested 29 suspects, including 2 bank employees, 1 employee of a courier company and 1 employee of a telecommunications company, and found out that the funds involved were more than 5 million yuan, and the personal information of the trading citizens totaled more than 2 million pieces.
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Trading personal information in QQ group
"The initial clue was found in the QQ group, with a dozen QQ groups and the largest number of people reaching 2,000." According to the police investigating the case, there are buyers and sellers of personal information in these QQ groups, and there are many middlemen. "As long as someone puts forward a demand, someone in the group will respond, and the two sides will talk privately to make a transaction." The police investigation found that a man named "Maitreya Buddha" was a middleman who traded more, so the police began to investigate from him.
"Middlemen are two-way dealers. They are in contact with many data sources, and information is usually increased by multiple middlemen." A price list of personal information seized by the police from "Maitreya Buddha" shows that flight records, personal bank flow (details) and mobile phone positioning information can be inquired, and the price ranges from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan.
The police investigation found that the real identity of "Maitreya Buddha" is Ma, who lives in Dongming County, Heze City and uses mobile QQ and WeChat to contact business. By collecting Ma’s bank transaction records, the police found that his family was a person named "Tiantian".
Where did the data of "Everyday" come from? With the deepening of the investigation, a huge trading network with a data source and multiple middlemen has gradually surfaced.
The courier company is in charge of the mole.
Zhang Renju, a policeman handling the case of the Netan detachment of Heze City Public Security Bureau, said that "Tiantian" is a well-known middleman in the circle who buys and sells personal information, and is well known by people in the circle because it can provide a variety of complete sets of personal information.
"This is a black industrial chain formed by the source of internal ghosts, middlemen and illegal users." Zhang Renju introduced that most of the suspects at the source used their work to find out the personal information of citizens and then sold it to middlemen. After repeated price increases and reselling, this information flowed into the hands of suspects who committed crimes such as fraud and cyber theft.
The police investigating the case said that "Everyday" has been in the circle for three years and has contacted many data sources. Starting from "Everyday", the police seized seven data sources, including two employees of the bank, one employee of the courier company and one employee of the telecommunications company.
"The credit information that was resold flowed out from two bank employees." According to the police handling the case, the investigation found that the credit information flowed out from two employees of Zhujiang Village Bank in Xinyang City, Henan Province, Zhen and Zhang. Express information flowed from Wang, a warehouse manager at SF Express Shanghai Station, and the mobile phone location information was because Chen Mou, an employee of best tone Company, sold the query password.
According to the police handling the case, internal employees of financial institutions can inquire about personal credit information. In addition to the credit information, the suspect provided others with a screenshot showing that the bank "ghost" inquired and sold bank customer information such as personal asset scale, credit rating and bank account balance through its banking system. Best tone has an inquiry and location service, and the suspect Chen Mou has the password, and he sold it to others. Ma’s price list shows that "Unicom positioning: 270 yuan/time, telecom positioning: 450 yuan/time, mobile positioning: 580 yuan/time".
On May 13th, the police of the task force began to make arrests, and moved to 13 provinces and cities including Beijing, Guangxi, Guangdong and Sichuan to carry out centralized arrests of the suspects involved. After more than three months of work, the data source and middlemen were caught in the net. In the end, 29 suspects, including Lou and Ma, were arrested and a number of criminal chains that violated citizens’ personal information were destroyed.
Bank employees sell credit information
The 24-year-old Zhen was originally the account manager of Zhujiang Village Bank in Xinyang City, responsible for the loan business, and his girlfriend Zou was also arrested. Zou just graduated from college in July this year and is responsible for soliciting business. Zhenmou can obtain credit report and depositor information in the credit information system and banking system, and each piece of information can be sold at prices ranging from 20 yuan to 40 yuan.
I am in charge of the loan business, so I am the only employee in the department who can check the credit information system. Zou said that Zou knew his work business and found him to help check some people’s credit information. "She said that a friend is doing small loans and wanted to help check some customers’ loans. I didn’t expect to check more and more later."
After Zou left the bank, Zou also asked him to help check the credit information, and Zou found his colleague Zhang to help. Zou said that they used the work gap to check this information. According to the regulations of the bank, they could not check it until they got the authorization from the customer, but none of the information checked by Zou was authorized. According to the police, Zou and Zhang inquired about more than 2,000 credit information before and after, and each earned tens of yuan.
"A man named Niu Niu added me after he learned about my WeChat from a friend. He said he wanted to find Lao Lai, gave me his mobile phone number and asked me to check the express address, and gave me 30 yuan each." Wang is 25 years old and used to be a warehouse manager at SF Express Shanghai Station. Wang said that he has been working in the express delivery industry for five or six years, knowing that it is against the company’s regulations to check express delivery information for others, but he does not know that it is illegal to do so.
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What are the problems exposed by the insider selling personal information?
According to the relevant person in charge of the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (hereinafter referred to as the "Network Security Bureau"), at present, it seems that enterprises, institutions or individuals who have mastered citizens’ personal information have a weak awareness of protecting citizens’ personal information. The internal control responsibility system of enterprises is not perfect, which makes citizens’ personal information easy to be stolen. "In recent years, so many cases of ghosts leaking information in the industry have been cracked, and the responsibility of unit leaders is rarely investigated."
Citizens’ personal information exists in the form of data, which is mostly stored in relevant systems or platforms. How to protect its security and correct use requires more systems such as auditing. Whoever inquires and copies this information should have corresponding records. However, the current situation is that although some enterprises have an audit system, they fail to do it in place. After some accounts are abnormal, the unit cannot report the case in time. After discovering the network security incident, it is worried that it will not be reported.
Will the disclosure of personal information encourage telecom fraud?
The relevant person in charge of the Network Security Bureau said that the disclosure of citizens’ personal information contributed to the crime of telecom fraud and played an ill role. After the disclosure of citizens’ personal information, it provides more accurate conditions for telecom fraud criminals, "increasing the credibility of fraud and providing conditions for the success of fraud".
Furthermore, after criminals have obtained citizens’ personal information, especially their understanding of citizens’ property, they have expanded the losses of telecom fraud and provided support for defrauding ordinary people of more money. "With the enhancement of people’s awareness of prevention, fraudsters will find ways to obtain more information and enhance the credibility of fraud reasons."
Why are personal information trafficking cases repeatedly banned?
According to the person in charge of the Network Security Bureau, the current social and economic life is very active, and there are legitimate and illegal demands for citizens’ personal information. In terms of source control, there is a lack of laws and regulations to protect citizens’ personal information, and there is no clearer legal constraint on units and individuals who collect and master citizens’ personal information; In terms of legal application, the judicial interpretation of the crime of infringing citizens’ personal information has not yet been promulgated, and in some aspects, there is no more clear support for cracking down on criminals who infringe citizens’ personal information, resulting in some criminals not being punished as they should; Crimes against citizens’ personal information are mostly committed through Internet contact, which is a cross-regional crime. Criminals have a strong awareness of anti-investigation, and it is difficult to obtain evidence, which leads to a relatively high cost of handling cases.
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Combating crimes against citizens’ personal information
More than 3,300 people were arrested nationwide in five months.
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security that since April this year, the Ministry of Public Security deployed public security organs across the country to launch a special campaign to crack down on crimes of infringing citizens’ personal information. Up to now, the network security department of public security organs across the country has cracked more than 1,200 criminal cases and arrested more than 3,300 suspects, including more than 270 insiders in banking, education, telecommunications, express delivery, securities, e-commerce websites and other industries, and more than 90 cyber hackers, and seized more than 29 billion pieces of information.
Jinghua Times reporter Zhang Sijia