According to the official media, China’s “cyber black industry” has become internationalized and intelligent, with billions of personal information leaked every year in China and sold at a price on international social networks and the dark web.
The official media Economic Reference News reported on April 19 that hundreds of millions of pieces of personal information of various categories are being sold openly through Telegram and the dark web by industry insiders. The information includes personal trajectory information, credit information, property information, accommodation information, communication records, and even facial information, which can be easily obtained by clicking on the payment.
Recently, in a Telegram named “social worker robot & idle fish guaranteed transaction file check data a certified group” on the social group to see, a large number of including household registration, cell phone number, positioning, checking people check file, property investigation, room records, flowing water and other user information is openly sold.
According to HUST (Shenzhen) Qi’anxin data security research institute executive director Liu Chuanyi introduced, each year in the dark network platform of various types of data leaks up to tens of thousands of events, the total amount of data up to billions, the transaction amount of more than 1 billion RMB. These publicly sold information, including information on citizens of government agencies, customer information of banks, securities and other financial institutions, owners of major telecom operators and customer and user information of various industries such as the Internet, express, hotels, real estate, aviation, hospitals and schools.
These detailed real data, but the price tag is very cheap, an industry insider said, “check a search for information on average is also a few cents.”
Dark net a just out of a tutoring agency national college 930,000 students identity data for sale, packaged price of $30. The publisher said the data is the registration data recorded by the website from 2016 to 2018, which includes names, cell phone numbers, schools, addresses and other information. The data package currently shows 18 transactions.
Personal privacy information sells for a low price, but information containing gambling class members sells for a high price. Some posters said that a sports soccer class App mailbox leaked VPN account password, in addition to adding registration information from April 1, 2020 to August 8, 2020, but also updated the red single referral member data, an increment of 1.9 million. It is worth noting that the data package is priced as high as US$2,000, and there have been 2 single transactions.
In addition, a March the first batch of 180,000 extracted chess data package, which includes telephone, operator, region, number of visits, crawl address, crawl platform, time and other specific information, the transaction unit price of $ 300.
According to Liu Chuan Yi, more than 60% of the “dark net” personal information from the financial industry, a securities institution funds more than 500,000 quality stockholder information page screenshot shows that 25,969 data, priced at $ 168, with name, account ID number, gender, age, place of origin, cell phone number, floating profit and loss and other nine data dimensions. The poster said, “Name, ID number, cell phone number and other information can be verified by yourself, the data is not much, but expensive and true.” The data has been released since January 17, 2021 and shows that 3 orders have been sold.
Another data package on sale is for up to 160,000 customer information of a securities company, with a price tag of $368. According to the publisher, the data is the latest first-hand customer data in 2021, internal channels outflow, “a total of 165,000 data, has been de-weighted, the real number rate of more than 95%, data fidelity.”
In addition, a commercial bank’s bank card, financial information and many other data were sold. The post with transaction number 41884 said that the data package has 48,566 pieces of data of a commercial bank’s customers in 2021, containing detailed personal information, bank card numbers, bank card types and many other information.
Zou Hongzhi, product manager of business intelligence security firm Yongan Online, said that the Yongan Online data leak monitoring platform has discovered more than 70,000 data leaks since it officially began operations in 2018, affecting more than 200 million people.
According to data recently published by ForgeRock’s Consumer Identity Information Breach Report, cyber hackers exposed more than 5 billion data records in 2019. While the number of data breach incidents dropped 57 percent in the first quarter of 2020, it only increased in terms of the volume of breaches, with as many as 1.6 billion records compromised, a 9 percent increase over the same period in 2019.
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