"I just bought a house and got a call from the decoration company." Has your personal information been leaked by an intermediary? How to protect personal information security?

"You just bought a house and got a call from the decoration company." This situation is likely to be that your personal information has been leaked by the intermediary or related institutions. In the process of housing purchase and decoration, the risk of personal information disclosure is relatively large, because there are many links involved, including real estate sales, intermediary services, decoration companies and so on. Here are some suggestions to help you keep your personal information safe:

1. Choose formal channels to buy a house: In the process of buying a house, try to choose formal real estate developers and intermediary companies to avoid personal information being illegally obtained.

2. Fill in personal information carefully: When providing personal information, try to ensure that the other party is a formal institution and it is necessary to provide the information. Try not to provide unnecessary personal information.

3. Confidentiality requirements: When signing relevant contracts, you can clearly put forward provisions requiring the other party to keep personal information confidential to protect your rights and interests.

4. Check personal information regularly: Check your credit report and bank card statement regularly to ensure that personal information is not illegally used.

5. Raise awareness of prevention: Don't trust strange phone calls, text messages or emails easily, and avoid providing personal information. Call the police immediately if you encounter suspicious circumstances.

6. Protect personal account security: set complex passwords and update them regularly to ensure that passwords are not disclosed to others. At the same time, use professional antivirus software to protect personal computers and mobile phones.

7. Pay attention to online privacy: in social media, online forums and other occasions, don't disclose personal information too much to avoid being used by criminals.

8. Rights protection measures: If personal information is found to be leaked, you can try the following rights protection ways:

-Contact the agency that leaked the information, ask to stop leaking and apologize.

-Collect evidence, such as harassing phone calls, text messages and emails. , as evidence in the process of rights protection.

-If the amount involved is large or the circumstances are serious, you can report it to the public security organ, and if you are suspected of committing a crime, you can be investigated for criminal responsibility.

-You can bring a lawsuit to the court and demand compensation from the organization or individual who leaked the information.

In short, protecting personal information security needs to start from many aspects, raise awareness of prevention and avoid unnecessary risk of disclosure. At the same time, in the event of information leakage, actively take rights protection measures to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.