However, some criminals collude with some staff of the courier company to steal citizens' personal information by paying rent. As a result, personal information was leaked.
What will happen if personal information is leaked online?
We may often wonder why we often receive information from many businesses or platforms in our short messages, which is caused by the disclosure of personal information. They bought our personal information from some people with resources in some ways, and then they will use our mobile phone number to register or promote various platforms through these personal information. It may interfere with our normal life to some extent.
To make matters worse, some people may use our personal information to forge their identities and do some illegal things, although to a certain extent, they can't produce information and items that show their identity, such as ID cards closely related to our personal information. But it may still lead to others being cheated. How to prevent your personal information from being leaked?
We can only try to avoid using our personal information, such as not going to some unknown websites or third-party software, using our personal information to register an account or doing some other activities. For those official platforms and software, it is inevitable to use our personal information to register accounts. And these official platforms will also keep our information confidential. For illegal websites or third-party software, they may use our personal information for some commercial activities.
In daily life, we should also pay attention to the confidentiality and disclosure of personal information. First of all, when traveling by various means of transportation, we should keep and destroy those tickets or receipts in time, and should not throw them away at will after use. Then there are some couriers, which will destroy the courier number and your personal information and address on the courier list in time. This can prevent personal information from leaking with great probability. The disclosure of personal information is inevitable in today's era of big data, but as long as you keep your ID card and other powerful identification materials. It doesn't matter.