Thursday, 8 June 2017
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Chinese authorities say they have uncovered a
massive underground operation run by Apple employees selling computer
and phone users' personal data.
Twenty-two
people have been detained on suspicion of infringing individuals'
privacy and illegally obtaining their digital personal information,
according to a statement Wednesday from local police in southern
Zhejiang province.
Of the 22 suspects, 20 were Apple employees who allegedly used the
company's internal computer system to gather users' names, phone
numbers, Apple IDs, and other data, which they sold as part of a scam
worth more than 50 million yuan ($7.36 million).
The statement did not specify whether the data belonged to Chinese or foreign Apple customers.
Following months of investigation, the statement said, police across
more than four provinces—Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and
Fujian—apprehended the suspects over the weekend, seizing their
"criminal tools" and dismantling their online network.
The suspects, who worked in direct marketing and outsourcing for
Apple in China, allegedly charged between 10 yuan ($1.50) and 180 yuan
($26.50) for pieces of the illegally extracted data.
The sale of personal information is common in China, which
implemented on June 1 a controversial new cybersecurity law aimed at
protecting the country's networks and private user information.
In December, an investigation by the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper exposed a black market for private data gathered from police and government databases.
Reporters successfully obtained a trove of material on one
colleague—including flight history, hotel checkouts and property
holdings—in exchange for a payment of 700 yuan ($100).
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