13 detained over sale of personal information
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THIRTEEN people have been detained in connection with the sale of more than 4 million pieces of private information, police in north China’s Hebei Province said yesterday.
The case surfaced when a Hengshui resident received a number of unsolicited calls at the end of 2016 and thought his personal information may have been stolen.
In March, he found two online social networking groups suspected of trafficking private data and purchased 40,000 pieces of personal information for 500 yuan (US$74) as evidence, and alerted the police.
Police located two suspects in Shijiazhuang and Hengshui and took them into custody in late May.
Further investigation revealed a gang of 11 in Henan, Hubei and Shandong. Over 4 million pieces of data were seized, involving victims from 10 provinces.
An investigation showed that two suspects in Hebei had worked at the same company and started to traffic personal data after one of them quit his job.
They sold information for less than 1 yuan a piece to the 11 suspects, who then sold it on to other companies.
Under Chinese law, anyone convicted of selling or providing personal information faces up to seven years in prison if “the circumstances are especially serious.”
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