China uncovers network of Apple employees selling customers’ personal data
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Pecon

June 08, 2017, 08:22:15 PM
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/06/08/china-uncovers-massive-underground-network-apple-employees-selling-customers-personal-data/
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/8/15762968/apple-china-employees-consumer-data-theft-scam
http://www.pcmag.com/news/354208/20-apple-employees-caught-selling-customer-data-in-china

Quote from: HKFP
Chinese authorities say they have uncovered a massive underground operation run by Apple employees selling computer and phone users’ personal data.

Twenty-two people have been detained on suspicion of infringing individuals’ privacy and illegally obtaining their digital personal information, according to a statement Wednesday from local police in southern Zhejiang province.

Of the 22 suspects, 20 were Apple employees who allegedly used the company’s internal computer system to gather users’ names, phone numbers, Apple IDs, and other data, which they sold as part of a scam worth more than 50 million yuan (US$7.36 million).

The statement did not specify whether the data belonged to Chinese or foreign Apple customers.

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The suspects, who worked in direct marketing and outsourcing for Apple in China, allegedly charged between 10 yuan (US$1.50) and 180 yuan (US$26.50) for pieces of the illegally extracted data.

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Tactical Nuke

June 08, 2017, 08:22:50 PM
like this wasn't already happening

otto-san

June 08, 2017, 08:26:56 PM
how tf were they able to get all that stuff so easily

Pecon

June 08, 2017, 08:30:05 PM
Quote from: otto-san on June 08, 2017, 08:26:56 PM
how tf were they able to get all that stuff so easily
Poor internal security model.

Master Matthew²

June 08, 2017, 08:50:11 PM
Quote from: otto-san on June 08, 2017, 08:26:56 PM
how tf were they able to get all that stuff so easily
Well, Iphones are pretty stuff.

Tactical Nuke

June 08, 2017, 08:56:55 PM
funny that Apple complained about having to provide a masterkey to law enforcement because it would cause information leaks when it turns out the employees are doing it themselves

Ipquarx

June 08, 2017, 08:59:16 PM
Happy that it's out of the picture, and happy that I wasn't using apple's services so my info wasn't being sold.

Pecon

June 08, 2017, 09:03:45 PM
Quote from: Tactical Nuke on June 08, 2017, 08:56:55 PM
funny that Apple complained about having to provide a masterkey to law enforcement because it would cause information leaks when it turns out the employees are doing it themselves

To be fair, that was a completely different problem regarding the on-device encryption; nothing to do with the security of their internal services such as appleID (which is probably where the information is coming from in this case).

Drydess

June 08, 2017, 09:08:29 PM
Quote from: Master Matthew² on June 08, 2017, 08:50:11 PM
Well, Iphones are pretty stuff.
id bet 7.36 million dollars that every popular mobile device company does this exact same thing

RedGajin

June 08, 2017, 09:16:12 PM
Quote from: Ipquarx on June 08, 2017, 08:59:16 PM
Happy that it's out of the picture, and happy that I wasn't using apple's services so my info wasn't being sold.
your info's def being sold somewhere lol
ot: ill have to do more research when i get the time, but is this related to those hackers that threatened apple saying they had millions of appleid users personal info?

Ipquarx

June 08, 2017, 10:09:27 PM
Quote from: RedGajin on June 08, 2017, 09:16:12 PM
your info's def being sold somewhere lol
Well, I mean, yeah, some form of information about me is definitely being sold (like which youtube videos I watch, for example), but I control what kind of info it is as much as I can. Not giving out my real name or billing information to various companies (if PayPal is selling stuff, I'll be screwed), blocking trackers online, using VPNs, not posting every little thing I do to facebook, etc etc.

MrLoL²

June 09, 2017, 06:12:54 AM
Quote from: Tactical Nuke on June 08, 2017, 08:22:50 PM
like this wasn't already happening


good title
« Last Edit: June 09, 2017, 06:16:18 AM by MrLoL² »

Juncoph

June 09, 2017, 06:14:14 AM
>china is the good side of this story

what the forget is going on

Decepticon

June 09, 2017, 06:28:21 AM

Kochieboy

June 09, 2017, 09:15:17 AM
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