In fact, in March of 20 16, after Cangnan police destroyed the black industrial chain of a phishing website, they found that people kept sending phishing links to Apple mobile phone users.
Cangnan police vaguely felt that someone was leaking information about Apple mobile phone users. According to the clues detected, Cangnan police conducted an investigation and found that these Apple mobile phones were "washed white" through a special "mobile phone factory". Most of the employees of these "mobile phone factories" are former employees of the outsourcing company of Apple in the United States.
The clue first points to an outsourcing company of Apple in Guangzhou.
After investigation by Cangnan police, it was found that due to the inadequate supervision of internal employee accounts, there was a problem that internal employees sold user information many times. In more than three years, more than 50 employees who used their work convenience to inquire about various user information and made profits were dismissed.
Among the dismissed employees, some people are looking for another way out, and some people are eyeing the "fat meat" of selling user information easily.
Cangnan police realized that this is not just a simple violation of citizens' personal information, but a black industrial chain integrating illegal access to information, subcontracting and illegal sales.
After finding out the context of the black industry, Cangnan police sent elite police officers to Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian and other places to arrest the suspects on May 3, 2007. According to statistics, among the 35 suspects arrested, 32 were employees of Apple's domestic branch or former employees of Apple's outsourcing company.
The suspects in this case are mainly "going home" in the black industrial chain. They illegally obtained user information including mobile phone ID, account number, name, mobile phone number and home address through Apple employees, and then sold these information to "Xia Jia" at prices ranging from 10 to 180 yuan.
Among them, the price of user information including important contents such as mobile phone ID and account number is higher, up to 180 yuan.
With Shang Jia's help, Xia Jia found the user information such as the ID account corresponding to the serial number of Apple's mobile phone, and obtained the password by sending a phishing link to the account, thus unlocking the mobile phone. "Next Home" will "wash white" these illegally recycled Apple phones and sell them for profit.
Among them, the suspect Yang Moujun is a former employee of an outsourcing company of Apple. He was fired by the company for illegally selling user information. 20 16 Driven by interests, he and other employees who were dismissed by Apple Outsourcing Company set up a "professional information inquiry studio".
According to Cangnan police, the studio undertook a large number of online lists for inquiring the serial number of Apple's mobile phones, and used the personal connections accumulated in the past work in Apple outsourcing company to obtain personal information of citizens by renting Apple's internal employee system, and then reselling it for profit.
Pan Mouxiang, the technical project manager of the channel operation management department of a domestic branch of Apple Company, rented his Apple system query account to Yang Moujun and provided technical guidance for the studio, making a profit of 750,000 yuan in just one month.
The case is under further investigation.
These people should be caught.