Personal relations map
The development of a database containing more than 1 billion citizen personal information, the development of navigation robots to attract tops, and the deployment of a security system to guarantee the security of transactions ... Criminal groups use this “high-end configuration” to form a “information-searcher” chat group through an anonymous chat software, with a clear coded price for selling citizen personal information. The district prosecutor's office of haizhou district, liangyun port, jiangsu province, had recently prosecuted 17 defendants, one of whom had been involved, on suspicion of violating citizens ' personal information。
How did such a secret “information profile” chat set up? Where does the huge amount of personal information in the database come from
Money lured the victim into harm
At the beginning of 2019, when he wanted to check the opening records for private reasons, he met the person named “beauche” (the public security authorities are still investigating further), and after receiving $1,900, he promised to help him to open the records。
Soon after, however, han found out that he had published bad information on the internet in his own name and suspected that his identity information had been stolen. After careful reflection, han considered the knife to be a serious suspect and demanded that it be returned. Subsequently, the knife returned $600 to han and sent an anonymous chat software to han to tell him that there were many people here who were selling personal information and could find someone else to check the opening records。
One and a half of han's letters are suspicious, but they are registered on an anonymous chat software. The sword was then recommended to a chat group called the “information file”, a group dedicated to selling personal information. At first, han was merely “diving” in the group, but after seeing the demand for “scrambling” in the group was very high, he moved his mind and began to advertise in his own circle of friends。
In february 2020 or so, a close friend of ours asked han if he could check his cell phone. Following a promise by han, friends were added to the “information check” chat group to look for ways to locate mobile phones, and a nick named “thousands of miles” was finally found (the public security authorities are still investigating further). “the search card is 600 dollars, the opening record is 800 dollars, and the basic personal information varies from 100 to 5,000 dollars, which is how much it costs...” han knows a lot of the “doorways” from the “thousands of miles”。
At the temptation of the interests, on several occasions, the republic of korea has published advertisements to search for personal information through channels such as micro-intelligence, and when the client “takes the hook”, it looks for people in the group to search for personal information at low prices and sell it at higher prices. Some koreans who taste sweets are increasingly bold enough to sell more than 1,000 personal information about their citizens to three people: lu chiu, liu chiu, wang chia, and others。
The black chain behind the chat
Who are the “brokers” in the illegal trafficking of citizens' personal information with whom he has close ties? Who created the “information profile” chat
On 20 march of this year, an investigation was launched into the illegal trafficking of citizens ' personal information in a group of anonymous chats, which resulted in an extraordinary case of violation of citizen's personal information。
In september 2019, joe's first internet friend described the use of an anonymous chat software, from which he learned that trafficking in personal information about citizens could make a lot of money, and then started this illegal activity with his friend sun. Since may 2020, two people have been setting up a “information profile” chat group on an anonymous chat software dedicated to illegal activities, offering more than 20 operations such as searching for accommodation information, mobile phone location, flight information, criminal records, etc。
In order to avoid detection, some joe and some shen came to collect money for themselves and pay the other。
“each time there is an operation, the collection method is sent to the client, and when the fee is paid to the recipient, the settlement is made in a virtual currency with me.” joe explains. In the meantime, in order to enhance the credibility of the transaction, sun has also sought wang chi to develop a “guarantee system” to guarantee the services of both the seller and the buyer. The system is attached to a group of anonymous chat software, similar to a web-based secured transactions platform, where sellers display the type of information in the form of commodities, buyers file bills, both parties settle in virtual currency, and provide secured transactions for criminal offences such as trafficking in citizens ' personal information。
Subsequently, in order to attract more clients, joe et al. Built a database containing more than 1 billion citizen's personal information, including citizen identification numbers, telephone numbers, qqq account numbers, licence plate information, and developed a navigation robot with the effect of leading the top. When a customer searchs key words such as “scramble” in an anonymous chat software after effective connection to databases, navigation robots and “guarantee systems”, the navigator gives priority to searching groups organized by joe and others. As a promotional tool, clients are provided with free access to citizen information three times and more than three times and additional fees。
Some joe and others have, as they wish, built up a growing human spirit, increasingly buying information, and the business has become increasingly popular. Subsequently, joie, a real-life friend, xu, zhang and three, became “underline”. As of the time of the incident, the group had illegally trafficked thousands of personal information pieces from citizens and had earned more than millions of dollars。
The whole chain. Let's check on the line
At the investigation stage, the haizhou district public prosecutor's office intervenes in advance to guide the public security organs to provide additional evidence on the characterization of the case, the determination of the amount of the offence, and the detection of the offence。
During the arrest phase, the examining prosecutor went to the warder for the trial。
On 29 april this year, the public security authorities referred the case to the haizhou district prosecutor's office for review and arrest. During the course of the case, the public prosecutor, tam yu-joon, communicated with the public security authorities on several occasions on the basis of a detailed compilation of the evidence in the case, in order to obtain subsequent corroboration of evidence such as money transfer records, chat records and bank flow. On 6 may, the public prosecution service authorized, in accordance with the law, the arrest of the alleged perpetrators, joe, sun, wang, xu, joo and zhang, on suspicion of violating citizens ' personal information. In view of the fact that the republic of korea has a meritorious circumstance, actively repossessing the proceeds and voluntarily pleading guilty, the public prosecution service issued a decision against the arrest。
In order to ensure the correct prosecution of crimes and the comprehensive fight against crime in the black-and-shell industry, the public prosecution service provides detailed additional investigative opinions on the number and number of information transactions, the type and quantity of personal information of citizens in the “information files” chat group, the retrieval of data on virtual currency transactions, the verification of the illegal proceeds of the persons involved, and directs the public security organs to provide additional evidence。
At the same time, on 7 may, the public prosecutor's office issued a direct referral request to the public security authorities for the examination of the charges against the two recipients of the case, shen ziqi, in view of the fact that their actions had been suspected of violating citizens ' personal information. Subsequently, the public security authorities arrested another officer, zhang a, on the basis of the two accounts。
After combing many times the criminal networks of joe and others, a question revolved around the heart: where did the citizen's personal information come from in the database? The public prosecutor's office has recommended that the public security organs should use choi as a breakthrough to intensify their investigations. In the end, joe explained that he had “privately checked his family's identity and the ip address of the fixed virtual currency wallets he paid”, and that the public security organs had found “online” chen, guo and wang。
Following the breakthrough in the case, the public security organs proceeded to arrest the “underline” lu hoi, liu chii and wang ai3 of han, and the procuratorial authorities recommended that the whereabouts and use of the information they had trafficked be further clarified. After the investigation was conducted, the public security authorities seized information about huang, zhang and wang's dealings with lu。
On 4 august, the public security organs transferred a total of 18 individuals, joe, han and his “online” “offline”, to the haizhou district prosecutor's office for prosecution。
After careful examination, the public prosecutor found that huang, a de facto operator of a litigation security firm, had been prosecuted by law for having extended the company's operations and had made it available to the company's clients for illegal access to a wide range of sensitive information, in particularly serious circumstances, where the guarantor company was suspected of having committed an offence. At the same time, taking into account the extenuating circumstances, such as confession, guilty plea, active return, accessory, etc., the court recommended that the measure of constraint be changed to one of bail pending trial. In addition, as a result of the incident, the staff member zhang a is a student at school, who is contacted in a timely manner to provide detailed information on his or her performance at school and to hold a public hearing, taking into account the circumstances of his or her offence, and finally decides to treat zhang a. With relative non-prosecution and to give him or her the opportunity to repent and return to school。
