Have you ever received annoying sales calls? As soon as you bought a house, there was a decoration company to contact you, and the intermediary company knew all about your real estate information.

　　Who on earth leaked your personal information?

　　Recently, the Wuxi police in Jiangsu cracked a case of illegal infringement of citizens' personal information, arrested 15 criminal suspects, and involved more than 5 million pieces of personal information of citizens.

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Resell over 5 million pieces of citizen information

15 arrested

　　On March 19, 2020, a policeman from the Qianqiao Police Station of the Huishan Branch of the Wuxi City Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province obtained clues at work. A salesperson from a decoration company, Mr. Li, bought and sold the personal information of the owners of multiple communities in Wuxi in an online chat group. Involving the name of the real estate, the name of the owner, ID number, telephone number, building number, real estate area, etc.

　　Zhou Tingyu, a policeman from the Qianqiao Police Station of the Huishan Branch of the Wuxi City Public Security Bureau, Jiangsu: We saw 8 folders covering 8 communities in Wuxi. One folder corresponds to one community. There are about 10,000 household information in them.

　　The Huishan police immediately set up a task force. On March 20, the task force conducted a surprise inspection of Li's decoration company and found that his computer and mobile phone contained a large amount of information about the owners of various communities in Wuxi. According to Li's confession, the information about house owners comes from Lin and Yu who are also engaged in the decoration industry.

　　Soon, Lin and Yu came to the case and confessed that they had illegally obtained information from owners of various districts to solicit business through online exchanges since they engaged in the decoration industry, and illegally provided the information to others. Criminal facts.

　　After reviewing the two, the task force found that they have a common online Zhou. Zhou has long been keen on collecting and exchanging information about the owners of various districts in Wuxi, and the amount of personal information of citizens in his possession is amazing. Immediately, the task force captured Zhou and brought him to justice.

　　Zhou Tingyu, a policeman from the Qianqiao Police Station of the Huishan Branch of the Wuxi Municipal Public Security Bureau, Jiangsu: Actually, there were only two files in hand at the beginning of this week. Later, if he had friends, he would have four for two, and then eight. Slowly roll bigger and bigger. He uses these household information as personal connections and as an expansion channel to send to his friends. Friends also think this person is very reliable.

　　In the favorites of Zhou's mobile chat software, the police found more than 150 owners' information stored under the names of various districts, totaling more than 500,000.

　　The investigator found that Zhou's original owner information was purchased from a person named Ding.

　　Zhou Tingyu, a policeman from the Qianqiao Police Station of the Huishan Branch of the Wuxi Public Security Bureau, Jiangsu: Ding once also worked in the decoration industry and resigned in 2018. From 2018 to this year, he has been engaged in reselling household information.

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　　The police follow the vine

　　Cut off the personal information industry chain for reselling

　　With Ding's arrest, a gray industrial chain specializing in reselling and exchanging information about owners in various districts gradually emerged.

　　Where is the source of the information leak? Which industries and who are involved? How does it work between them?

　　With the deepening of the investigation step by step, the task force followed the vines, sorted out more than ten specific criminal chains of trafficking in citizen information, found out the connection between the persons involved, and quickly figured out a case involving the home improvement industry, real estate agency, Information sales network for multiple industries including real estate development.

　　Zhou Tingyu, a policeman from the Qianqiao Police Station of the Huishan Branch of the Wuxi Municipal Public Security Bureau, Jiangsu: This is a cell phone of the suspect involved in the crime. His WeChat favorite contains a large number of residential information of the community, including the building number, name, and phone number of the community. It is some basic information, one of which has 657 pages in total.

　　The task force continued to investigate, and successively arrested 15 suspects in various parts of Wuxi City, involving more than a dozen business units such as real estate sales, real estate agencies, and decoration companies. A total of more than 5 million pieces of information about owners of almost all communities in Wuxi were seized, and illegal profits were made. Nearly one million yuan. How did these citizens' personal information leak out?

　　Zhou Tingyu, a policeman from the Qianqiao Police Station of the Huishan Branch of the Wuxi Municipal Public Security Bureau, Jiangsu: Some staff in the community, they found some list of households in their daily work, they would take pictures with their mobile phones and make a form after get off work, and then print it out. As fresh first-hand information, one piece of household information is about five to ten yuan.

　　The police found that there are many channels for reselling information. The first is the outflow of internal personnel from real estate developers, the second is the property management staff or security guards of various communities, and the other is the internal information held by intermediaries and decoration companies. This information mainly includes private content such as the name of the real estate owner, phone number, ID number, and asset status.

　　Zhou Tingyu, a policeman from the Qianqiao Police Station of the Huishan Branch of the Wuxi Public Security Bureau, Jiangsu: The community has just been delivered and has not been decorated. Such a list is a document, about 5,000 to 10,000 yuan, but if the community on this list has been delivered for three years , The price gradually decreases, about two thousand yuan.

　　At present, Zhou, Ding and others have been taken criminal coercive measures by the police in accordance with the law, and the case is under further investigation.