Six people have been detained in connection with stealing, selling and publishing online the personal details of 3,600 local residents, police said yesterday.
Officers said that details – including names, addresses and phone numbers – of residents from 14 well-known residential complexes changed hands six times before finally being posted on Baidu Wenku, China’s biggest online file-sharing platform.
Read the story in the Shanghai Daily as to how they tracked the data back to its original source.