Information theft or industrial chain

Once, there are related media have reported on "pay the Ghost 20G user information is looted" message. And Alipay also to the South reporters confirmed that it does. Addition。 Alipay also said in the news, leaked information is mainly trading data. And the message caused a large number of users on the issue of information security concerns, at the same time, the news also let the network information trafficking industry chain surfaced. And China Electronic Enterprise Association informatization Promotion Development Center Director Lin Han in the South all reporters also published his opinion, he believes that user security information theft and trafficking has now formed a very complete industrial chain, and behind the market demand is very large. and a higher value of the user information even can be sold dozens of yuan.

Where the customer said "confiscated police inquiries"

According to media reports, the Alipay information leakage, more than 20G of mass user information, is paid treasure employees in the background to download and paid to sell to the electric business company, data company.

Alipay related responsible for the South reporters confirmed the information leaked events, and its micro-blog public statement also said that the user information leaked time Alibaba department in 2012 routine internal audit found the former staff in the data processing misconduct, and in the investigation after the transfer of Lee to the public security organs. As for the disclosure of the information involved, the Alipay side of this statement is also not clear. "Mainly some transactions. A person close to Alipay said to reporters in the south. According to media reports, the leaked information includes "the personal name of a citizen, mobile phone, e-mail, home address, consumer records, etc.".

According to reports, the Alipay leaked information was allegedly sold to visitors. And every guest PR director Gio Hongyu yesterday in the interview with the south, said that every customer confiscated to the police inquiries, all the police final investigation results, and the internal will also launch the relevant investigation.

Do small electric dealers buy data?

In fact, this is not the first time Alipay has a information security disclosure problem. Alipay has been exposed to similar events in December 2011 when a massive web site user information leak occurred. In recent years, the issue of user information leakage has emerged.

"User security information theft and trafficking has formed a relatively complete industrial chain, and the market demand is big." Lin Han in the south are interviewed by reporters, for businesses, through the purchase of user information, is almost the lowest cost, and the fastest way to achieve marketing. At present, valuable user information is broadly divided into two categories, including the user's name, age, gender, contact information, and so on, as well as the user's consumption records, and other business information. "Basic information, generally purchased for spam messages, telemarketing. He pointed out that, compared with the basic information, business class information can be realized through data analysis, processing and mining, and it has more commercial application value.

In this respect, a large electricity business market department personage said, one or two line electric business enterprise itself has the consummation user database, does not need the external purchase. Instead, they need rigorous data monitoring to prevent data from leaking to the black trading chain. "Small and medium electricity dealers will buy the telephone and the mailbox, carries on the information to push." ”

According to Lin Han, some of this information is sold by individuals, while others are operated by the company. In general, private trafficking in the lower prices, and the operation of the company, the information is generally two times mining and packaging, the price is more expensive. It is reported that such information trafficking industry, some even take the company's mode of operation, from the Internet to buy personal or unit information, resell others profit, through the online purchase of personal information such as household registration, housing, vehicles, etc. to provide others with marriage, debt collection, mobile phone positioning and other services to profit from; Buy information online to sell products Use their own special identity theft, fraud citizens, corporate information resale profit.

"More accurate, valuable personal information, even a personal information can be sold to a few dollars or even dozens of yuan." Lin said that before this, because the regulation of personal information is lax, and even some people on Taobao Hawking, and with the tightening of supervision in recent years, these traffic information companies become covert, often with precision marketing, data marketing image appeared in the market.