The State Council of the State Council emphasizes the security of information.Not long ago, there were reports that an anonymous hacker was selling a large amount of Chinese citizen data stolen from police database.
According to the China News Agency, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang hosted a executive meeting of the State Council on Wednesday (July 6) to emphasize the need to observe information security.At the same time, improve security management regulations, improve security protection capabilities, and protect personal information, privacy and business secrets in accordance with the law.
The meeting also mentioned that it is necessary to investigate and deal with various types of infringement of the legitimate rights and interests of individuals and enterprises for illegal use of information and abuse of information, and seriously investigate and deal with it in accordance with laws and regulations.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the hacker posted on Thursday (June 30) on a highly popular network crime forum to tell the relevant data to be sold widely. According to this post, the data, the data, the dataThe cache is said to include a record of billions of theft from the Shanghai police, which contains data involving 1 billion Chinese citizens.This post has been circulating on social media last weekend, and the relevant data leaked is about $ 200,000 (about S $ 280,000).
Sing Tao Daily pointed out that if the incident is true, this will be the largest data leak in China.However, mainland Chinese officials have not confirmed or responded to this news.
Bloomberg quoted Daron Hartvigsen, a management partner of the multinational consulting company Stoneturn, said: "China should have experienced such a scale attack."
HeHe also pointed out: "From a historical point of view, China is often not regarded as a feasible goal of criminal network attacks. Threat executors usually target the goals of possibilities for extortion.Economic returns. "
