Why is personal information leaked?

The reasons for the leakage of personal information are as follows:

1. Artificial reselling of information, and employees of companies and institutions who have mastered the information actively reselling information;

2. PC computers Infection, the computer is infected with viruses, Trojans and other malware;

3. Website vulnerabilities, attackers use website vulnerabilities to invade the database that stores information;

4. Mobile phone vulnerabilities. Phishing Wi-Fi used by hackers, etc.

The dangers of personal information leakage are as follows:

1. Spam text messages, harassing phone calls, and spam emails continue to flow. This is a very common thing. After your personal information is leaked, your email box may receive more than a dozen spam emails every day, which are mainly sales promotions, and they are also messy and uncreative advertisements. You may also often be Strangers called, some were selling insurance, some were selling decoration, and some were selling baby products;

2. I applied for a card under a false name and owed overdrafts. Someone buys your personal information, copies your ID card, defrauds the bank's credit online, applies for various credit cards from the bank, and maliciously overdrafts consumption. Then the bank may directly send a reminder note for the arrears. The owner of the ID card.

Legal basis:

Article 253-1 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China

The crime of infringing on citizens' personal information violates the state Relevant regulations stipulate that those who sell or provide citizens’ personal information to others, and the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and may also be fined; if the circumstances are particularly serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined. .

Anyone who violates relevant national regulations by selling or providing personal information of citizens obtained in the course of performing duties or providing services to others shall be severely punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Anyone who steals or illegally obtains citizens’ personal information through other methods shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1.