Did the ticket "return and change" fraud lead to a major case of information leakage?

illegally invaded the websites of more than 5 civil aviation companies, stole passenger ticketing information, and then used this information to implement online fraud, defrauding more than 1 million yuan. Recently, the Netan detachment of Wenzhou Public Security Bureau of Zhejiang Province and the Netpolice Brigade of Cangnan County Public Security Bureau cracked a case of hacking and stealing information from domestic airline websites. The police * * * arrested 2 criminal suspects, including hacker Lin, and seized more than 3, pieces of information about air ticketing citizens and a large number of account and password information.

how is the information of passengers leaked? In July this year, the network security department of Wenzhou public security organs found that the criminal suspect Lin was suspected of illegally invading major civil aviation websites and stealing citizens' air ticket travel information when investigating a case of using air ticket refund and change to implement online fraud.

the case involved the websites of more than 5 civil aviation companies such as China Eastern Airlines, China International Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Capital Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines and Kunming Airlines.

these websites have been illegally invaded by hackers, resulting in a large number of citizens' personal information being leaked. During the arrest, the police seized more than 3, pieces of personal information of citizens and a large number of accounts and passwords logged into major websites involved. The police further investigated and found out that since the second half of 216, the criminal suspect Lin and others used the loopholes in the websites of various airlines to illegally invade more than 5 websites for many times to obtain the latest information on airline tickets, and the illegal profit from selling them at the price of each 5 yuan reached more than 1.5 million yuan.

17 people, including the criminal suspect Li Mou, used this information to implement the method of returning and changing airline tickets for online fraud, committing more than 1 crimes and defrauding more than 1 million yuan.

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