Legal basis: Article 253 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China. If the circumstances are serious, the staff of state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units, in violation of state regulations, sell or illegally provide citizens' personal information obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services to others. Whoever steals or illegally obtains the above information by other means, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. If a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.