China News Service, Nanjing, May 7 (correspondent Su Jinan and Dai Hongliang) On May 7, the Public Security Bureau of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province announced that after more than four months of investigation, Nantong and Rudong public security agencies spanned 26 cities in 8 provinces. , Cracked an extraordinarily large “dark web” infringement of citizens ’personal information supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, arrested 27 criminal suspects, and seized more than 50 million pieces of sold citizens’ personal information data.
In August 2019, the network security detachment of the Public Security Bureau of Nantong City found in the daily online inspection work that the user with the net name "akula98" sold personal information of citizens on the "darknet" trading platform, some of which involved citizens in Nantong, Rudong Personal information.
After further investigation, the police found that since May 2019, "akula98" has repeatedly sold personal information of citizens through the "dark web" trading platform, a large number.
The project team built its own data model, and through deep research and judgment, the real identity of "akula98" was locked as Wang Moucheng in Ningbo, Zhejiang. On the evening of September 9, the police of the task force captured Wang Moucheng and successfully extracted the Bitcoin trading APP and the network disk used to store the personal information of citizens on his mobile phone.
According to Wang Moucheng, he collected a large amount of business information through various channels, and illegally purchased personal personal information data including futures and foreign exchange investors, and sold it on the "dark web" trading platform. At the same time, he also used the "dark web" trading platform to purchase personal information of citizens in industries such as "shareholders", "owners", "banks", and "real estate", and sold them for profit.
In order to escape the blow by the public security organ, Wang Moucheng communicated with buyers and sellers using special software and settled in Bitcoin. The police of the task force tracked day and night, and from a large amount of funds, researched and judged a buyer's clue. On October 29, the buyer was arrested in Kunshan, Suzhou. As a result, the ad hoc group also found a key link in this criminal chain that uses the “dark web” to violate citizens ’personal information.
After investigation, the buyer is Wang Mouyang, a long-term futures trading platform. After arriving at the case, Wang Mouyang explained that he purchased personal personal information for business promotion.
According to the clues provided by Wang Mouyang, the task force quickly found out that another channel for selling personal information of citizens was Lin Mouwei, who was only 21 years old. On November 12, Lin Mouwei was arrested in Shanghai.
According to Lin Mouwei, he introduced Wang Mouyang through friends. From the end of 2018 to the case, more than 3.5 million bank accounts and mobile phone user registration data purchased from illegal channels such as the "Dark Web" were sold to Wang Mouyang and his introduced Fei Mougui, etc. More than 700,000 yuan.
On the basis of the previous work, in December 2019, the task force transferred more than 30 police forces and set up 6 arresting groups, which went to 26 cities in 8 provinces including Hubei, Heilongjiang, Shanghai, and Guangdong to conduct the offline purchase of personal information Centralized collection of nets. As of January this year, a total of 27 criminal suspects have been arrested and as many as 50 million pieces of personal data of various types of citizens have been trafficked.
The police said that cases of infringement of citizens' personal information are extremely harmful to society and must be severely cracked down. The police also reminded the masses that they should surf the Internet in a civilized and green way to raise awareness of the protection of personal information and prevent personal information from being inadvertently leaked out. (Finish)