Millet user data leaks frequently occur black hands looming in the world

Abstract: The black underground industry returns quite abundant, some outlaws will claw again and again to each website, tens of millions of users privacy data repeatedly stolen. For the fever of the Millet Technology Company (hereinafter referred to as Millet) accidentally gun in its important new products released

The black underground industry returns quite abundant, some outlaws will claw again and again to each website, tens of millions of users privacy data repeatedly stolen. "For the birth of a fever" Millet technology Company (hereinafter referred to as "millet") accident in the gun--in its important new products released the day before, was the leak of the user database, about 8 million covers the user name, password, SMS, address Book and other private content in the online nude. Why is the black underground industry chain so rampant? Who's going to take care of the endless underground?

Data leaks are frequent, black production is looming.

14th, the relevant director of millet company Xinhua News agency, "China Network" reporter confirmed that the data leakage incident did occur. Through the Cloud Vulnerability report platform confirmed that the millet database has been published online download, and millet official data tallies.

"Is there a relationship between the millet data leak and the network underground black production?" ”

"There must be!" A senior security industry insider answered with certainty.

The so-called black production, is the illegal use of computer technology loopholes to obtain benefits of an underground industry. In the underground black production, the mature industrial chain has been formed, there are stolen data, there is traffic reselling data, there is the use of data to promote fraud, but also direct use of netizens net silver data theft property crime. In other words, in addition to net bank accounts, passwords such information can be directly committed crime, internet users of mobile phone number, home address, hobbies and other privacy information, is also a common black production of trading goods.

Early in the Millet company official recognition of data vulnerabilities, there have been netizens have received a large number of fraud calls, the source can provide users with accurate information, name, address, telephone, merchandise purchase records and so on, the way to pay goods to sell products and other fraud.

As a fast-growing mobile phone manufacturer, Millet has attracted much attention. And because of its fan economy development strategy, the Forum is the millet Science and technology attaches great importance to the Community products. This time the user information leakage involved millions of millet forum users, but also by the industry's great concern. Millet to this quick response, and issued a notice said: August 2012 after the registered Millet account users in this incident is completely unaffected, to the previous registration of Millet Forum account, and in August 2012 after the user has not modified password, for security reasons, millet will be through SMS, Mail, and so on to prompt them to modify the password.

According to familiar with the black production of the Internet security industry, not only the Millet 8 million user data leakage incidents and black production-related, after the "heart bleeding" loopholes, ie browser vulnerabilities and other events after exposure, have caused the underground black production market hot abnormal.

Reporter in a senior security technology experts to provide data to see, a province of engineering personnel related information data at a glance, such as work number, name, ID number and other information, not only have specific personal information, as well as these personnel in the relevant web site to use the password, authentication information and so on.