Infringement of citizens ’personal information, the black chain of profit emerged, and
more than 50 million pieces of personal information were resold on the“ dark web ”
On May 7th, the Public Security Bureau of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province announced that after more than four months of rigorous investigations, the public security organs at the two levels of Nantong and Rudong in Jiangsu cracked an extraordinarily “dark web” infringement of citizens ’personal information and arrested the suspect 27 Name, seized more than 50 million pieces of citizen personal information data sold. This case was also listed by the Ministry of Public Security as one of the 10 typical cases of violations of citizens ’personal information that have been detected by public security agencies nationwide since 2019.
The so-called "dark web" is a type of technical means that uses encrypted transmission, P2P peer-to-peer networks, etc. to provide users with anonymous Internet information access. The biggest feature of the "dark web" is that after encryption processing, ordinary browsers and search engines cannot enter, and using bitcoin as a transaction currency, it is difficult to trace the true identity and location of the user, which is favored by Internet criminals.
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 citizen personal information on the "darknet" trading platform, some of which involved citizens of Nantong Rudong and other places. Personal information.
"The main data is bank account opening, mobile phone registration, etc. The query is true, and it is easy to be used by fraud and other criminal gangs, and the potential harm is great." Said Xu Pingnan, a network security technology expert and deputy team leader of the third team of the network security detachment of the Nantong Public Security Bureau.
After further investigation by the ad hoc group, the Nantong police found that since May 2019, "akula98" has repeatedly sold personal information of citizens through the "dark web" trading platform, a large number.
However, the “cracknet” can provide the task force with only one user name. The true identity of the suspect is unknown, and the case investigation stalemate is at a standstill.
Under the leadership of Xu Pingnan, the project team built its own data model and, through in-depth research and judgment, locked the real identity of "akula98" as Wang Moucheng in Ningbo, Zhejiang.
On the evening of September 9, 2019, 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 "darknet" trading platform. At the same time, he also used the "dark web" trading platform to buy personal information of citizens in industries such as "shareholders", "owners", "banks" and "real estate", and sold them for profit.
As of the case, Wang Moucheng has sold more than 1 million pieces of personal personal information, and illegally earned more than RMB 100,000.
In order to evade the public security organs, 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 money, researched and judged a buyer's clue.
On October 29, 2019, the buyer was arrested in Kunshan, Suzhou. As a result, the task force has also found a key link in this criminal chain that uses the “dark web” to infringe citizens ’personal information.
After investigation, the buyer is Wang Mouyang, long-term operating futures trading platform. After arriving at the case, Wang Mouyang explained that the purchase of citizen personal information was for business promotion needs.
In addition, Wang Mouyang not only purchased citizen personal information through Wang Moucheng, but also had other channels to purchase millions of citizen personal information related to futures and POS machines.
"As an intermediary, he also helped introduce and get some 'benefits' from it." Jiang Guangcheng, the squadron leader of the investigation squadron of the Network Security Brigade of the Rudong County Public Security Bureau, who was responsible for the case.
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, 2019, Lin Mouwei was arrested in Shanghai.
According to Lin Mouwei, he introduced Wang Mouyang through friends. From the end of 2018 to the incident, he sold more than 3.5 million bank accounts and mobile phone registration data purchased from illegal channels such as the "Dark Web" to Wang Mouyang and his introduced fee Mougui, etc., illegal The profit is more than 700,000 yuan.
From the confessions of the criminal suspects, the task force realized that there was a huge network of personal data information reselling behind them, and the "dark web" has become a distribution center for criminal suspects to illegally buy and sell citizens' personal information. The case is significant, and the case was subsequently listed as a case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security.
Later, the task force discovered a chat tool group that Wang Mouyang joined. After the group members paid the fee, the group owner would teach the one-on-one how to enter the "dark web" to conduct transactions.
The other “dark web” channel for Lin Mouwei is Hemou, a security engineer for a network company. At this point, this black chain of infringement of citizens' personal information with the "dark web" and private communication software as transaction exchange platforms has completely surfaced.
On November 26, 2019, the task force rushed to Wuhan, Hubei to arrest the suspect He Mou. In his daily work, He Mou can collect some personal personal information, and quickly accumulated a batch of personal personal information data on hand, coupled with his familiarity with the "dark web", so through the "dark web" or introduction of acquaintances, the sale of foreign profits, Buyers are all over the country. In December last year, the task force transferred more than 30 police forces and established six arresting teams. They went to 26 cities in 8 provinces including Hubei, Heilongjiang, Shanghai, and Guangdong to collect the offline collection of personal information of citizens. 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.
Fei Mougui, 33 years old this year, runs a company in Kunshan and mainly represents the POS card swiping business of various payment companies. For marketing business. According to Wang Mouyang, Fei Guigui purchased 3.5 million POS card swipe consumption data from Lin Mouwei and distributed it to salespersons for targeted telemarketing. "Dividend" to Fei Mougui.
"Buyers have huge demand, which has stimulated the development of this network of black goods to a certain extent." Zhang Jian, the head of the network security detachment of the Public Security Bureau of Nantong City, said that most buyers have similar purposes to Fei Mougui, mainly to illegal The obtained citizen's personal information is used for the precise placement of various advertisements and business promotion, and at the same time, it continues to sell its personal information through the "dark web" trading platform.
"This can easily become an" accomplice "to other cybercrime." Zhang Jian said that cases of infringement of citizens' personal information are extremely socially harmful and must be severely cracked down. At the same time, the broad masses of people should be civilized and green on the Internet, and pay attention to raising the awareness of the protection of personal information to prevent personal information from being inadvertently leaked out.
At present, the case is still under further digging, and the suspects who have arrived have been handed over to the local procuratorate for review and prosecution.
Su Jinan Dai Hongliang China Youth Daily · China Youth Daily reporter Li Chao Source: China Youth Daily