Text丨Li Yue, the quiet girl died
Every night at 8:40 I will accompany you to see the world
It's scary.
In the Internet era, countless of us are actually "running naked".
And often because of an inadvertent move, he leaks himself completely-
The circle of friends posted a photo.
Downloaded a legitimate software.
Sold an old phone.
Changed a mobile phone number......
Then the unexpected happened.
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Recently, CCTV reposted a video that scared many people out of a cold sweat.
is a reminder from the Tongling police in Anhui Province -
When you change your mobile phone number, you must unbind all the software you bound before.
Otherwise, the new owner of this mobile phone number will be able to easily log in to your WeChat and Alipay.
There is a Ms. Huang in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, who has applied for a new mobile phone number for her son.
Unexpectedly, inserting the mobile phone card into the mobile phone shows that this number has been registered on WeChat.
She used this mobile phone number to log in to Taobao and Alipay, and they all easily entered.
In her Alipay and Taobao accounts, Ms. Huang found a lot of consumer information.
What to buy, the delivery address, is clear.
Later, Ms. Huang tried to log in to Weibo with this mobile phone number, and found that it was no problem at all.
In Weibo, the former owner of this mobile phone number recorded a lot of daily life.
His life experience, his inner world.
Even where does the family live, where is the girlfriend's house, where did I work before, and where is it now......
It's all clear.
Ms. Huang contacted the other party through various messages left by the previous owner.
After listening to Ms. Huang's narration, the other party was shocked and shouted "It's ridiculous"!
It turned out that he had already canceled the number and thought it should be fine.
I didn't expect it to be full of loopholes.
Thankfully, the new owner who got this number didn't have bad intentions.
Otherwise, if you meet someone with bad intentions, something may happen.
Something like this, many people have encountered.
In March 2024, Ms. Zhang, from Beijing, used her mobile phone number to log in to a ride-hailing app for the first time.
only to see a message: "You have an order worth 230 yuan that has not been paid".
The order was placed on June 8, 2019 in Shanghai.
The mobile phone number was newly opened by Ms. Zhang.
She lives in Beijing and has never been to Shanghai.
Later, I learned that the order was left by the owner of the previous mobile phone number.
The reason for these situations is that the operator "re-releases".
Now that there are more and more users, mobile phone numbers are also a scarce resource.
Some got a mobile phone number, and after using it for a while, it stopped.
The carrier will take the number back.
After being vacant for a period of time, it is sold again.
The customer service of China Telecom and China Unicom both said that after the user's mobile phone number is cancelled, there will be a 90-day freezing period.
After that, it will be put back on the market.
Operators are right.
However, for users, the slightest carelessness can lead to the leakage of personal information.
Because when you change your mobile phone number, even if you cancel the number.
It only dissolves the relationship between you and the operator.
If this mobile phone number was previously bound to your WeChat, Alipay, Taobao......
The new account owner, if not, will become the new owner of your accounts.
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Mobile phone numbers can leak personal privacy.
Mobile phones are even better.
A few years ago, there was a gentleman who changed his phone to a new one and sold his old one.
Before selling, I deleted all the information cleanly.
Four days later, his friends were receiving text messages.
They were all sent in his name, saying that they were short of money and wanted to borrow money.
He seriously suspected that it was the old mobile phone acquisition platform that leaked his information.
There are also many shops on the Internet, all of which say that the mobile phone still recovers data "even if it is factory reset".
Therefore, many people would rather put their unused mobile phones at home to eat ashes than sell them to second-hand traders.
Of course, just keeping your phone doesn't guarantee privacy at all.
Now every bit of our life may leak privacy -
Ordered takeout, ride-hailing, registered websites, and even free WiFi in public places can all "sell" your privacy.
Someone can get your mobile phone number, real name, home address, and other personal information just by using just one account name.
You can find out where you've stayed in a hotel or traveled anywhere.
This is the legendary "human flesh search".
In the past two years, "human flesh search" has evolved into "human flesh unboxing".
"Human flesh unboxing" means that someone uses illegal means to publicly expose other people's privacy and data information.
The "box opener" will gather a lot of people to harass the person who is being "opened".
Those who are "unboxed" will be bombarded with endless phone calls and abused on the Internet.
To put it bluntly, "human flesh unboxing" is actually a combination of "human flesh search + cyber violence".
Some people even treat this as a business.
A few years ago, a reporter did a related investigation.
The reporter only spent 700 yuan to buy all the personal information of his colleagues.
This includes identity information, home address, flight history, bank card number, social media accounts, and even location.
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The black chain of personal information buying and selling involved behind this is even more shocking.
Recently, Beiqingshen once reported the story of the main culprit of a "human flesh search".
Her name is Li Yafang.
In 2017, at the age of 21, she often sprayed and scolded netizens in the post bar.
As a result, it was subjected to doxing.
Her real name, school, mobile phone number, household registration, home address, and photo are all hung on the homepage of Tieba.
Some netizens called her school and spread rumors that she was "engaging in Internet fraud".
The school leaders also talked to her specifically.
The phone harassment of strangers is endless.
Li Yafang couldn't bear to be disturbed and decided to "return a tooth for a tooth".
She began to grope for ways to search for doxing on the Internet, and soon mastered the doorway.
He even began to form a "regularized" team and began to do the business of "buying and selling personal information".
Her team consists of managers, accountants, and customer service.
There are also those who specialize in investigating "inner ghosts".
After all, it is not visible, and it is common to be reported.
Li Yafang is active on major social platforms, and has collected 370,000 pieces of personal information in more than a year.
The tentacles even reach into banks, public security and information companies.
When business is good, her monthly turnover can exceed 200,000.
What a profiteering.
Soon, in the shady business of "human flesh search", Li Yafang became the "head".
Li Yafang has always been cautious.
She asked everyone to clean up the chat history in time, and the electronic devices were also set to foreign IPs.
However, even if he was good at disguise, he still couldn't escape the police investigation.
In July 2018, Li Yafang was taken away by the police when she was about to join a bank.
He was sentenced to three years in prison for infringing on citizens' personal information.
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In March 2021, Li Yafang was released from prison after her sentence was commuted.
She found that the business of buying and selling personal information was more rampant and more cunning.
Many of them have also been converted into commercial companies under various names.
For example, it is registered as an investigation, debt collection, detective, and marriage company.
It's just a "shell", in fact, many people are still engaged in the "unboxing" business behind the scenes.
And a lot of personal data, they don't even have to get it personally.
"Ghosts" in industries such as banking, finance, real estate, food delivery, and hotels will also take the initiative to package and sell customer information to them because of greed for money.
Ordinary 10,000 pieces of information, 1,000 pieces.
For big VIP customers, one person may be a thousand yuan.
Many of the harassing calls we receive on a daily basis come from here.
The other party may report your name, address, and child's name as soon as they come up......
It's annoying, scary, and unguardable.
Because if you go to register it, the information may be leaked.
Of course, this kind of indiscriminate leakage is easy to say.
What's even scarier is the investigation that is specific to you.
Now, if someone wants to investigate you specifically, they can probably do it for a little money.
A reporter called a company called "Detective Agency".
The other party said:
"I found 4,000 call records and 5,000 house opening records, so I guarantee that I can find them."
"As long as you want, all the information can be 'opened' in five minutes, and there are ways to do it."
On the "box opener" forum, some claim that 180 yuan can open a box with multiple information.
What ID number, phone number, etc., can be listed in one to three days as soon as possible, and it only takes one to three days to list it.
It seems that as long as the money is enough, there is no privacy that they can't "open".
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In fact, their doxing is indeed very deep.
Many people like to post photos on social platforms.
Traveling, photos of children, even pictures of home.
But in fact, the bad guys can find out which neighborhood you live in, or even how many floors you live in, just by taking a photo.
Even if it's a landscape photo.
On a certain website, a blogger once uploaded a video about "human flesh search", which caused a lot of controversy.
Some netizens sent him a photo of the scenery, saying that he was "helping his roommate find someone".
This blogger uses a panoramic map software to compare the surrounding environment information little by little.
learned that there was a hotel nearby, and he also posted pictures through the comments of netizens in a reservation software, and began to make further comparisons.
Eventually, he deduced the exact location of the person taking the landscape photograph, even the floor.
Afterwards, some netizens responded that the photo taken by the netizen was posted on the circle of friends by the girl he liked.
The netizen took the results and asked, and it was really the night scene she took in the hotel.
and the blogger's inference, completely matched.
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In the age of the Internet, it is impossible to prevent the leakage of personal information.
And once you are targeted by the bad guys, the risk is very high.
How to avoid being "unboxed"?
How can we make personal information leak as little as possible?
We can pay more attention to the following points:
1: When changing your mobile phone number, in addition to canceling, you must unbind the previously registered APP, such as Alipay, WeChat, etc.
Otherwise, new users can also log in to your registered account through SMS verification code.
The security risks are significant.
2: If you don't use your old phone, you must make sure that your personal information is cleaned up before you throw it away or sell it.
The safer way is to format the phone first.
Then download some larger movies and overwrite the previous information.
In this way, others will not recover the data in your phone through technical means.
3: Do not easily expose personal information on the Internet.
Unless it is a particularly reliable platform, try not to leave real identity information, ID card, mobile phone number, etc. online.
Don't look at just fragmented information, the bad guys can collect your information in minutes and get a complete personal digital portrait of you.
4: Avoid sharing the same username and password on multiple websites.
If the information on multiple websites is the same, hackers can use usernames and passwords to log in to other websites, and all kinds of information about you will be compromised.
5: When downloading the software and logging in, be sure to carefully review the content of the notification and turn off the permissions that are not necessary.
Nowadays, many apps are searching for your user information excessively.
Weather forecasting software wants to see your address book.
Most people don't look closely at the content of these "authorization" notices, and simply click "Allow" or "OK".
Then your private information is handed over to the app.
6: Try to minimize photos in social situations.
If you can't help but want to bask in it, cover up the areas that contain personal information.
Do not post train tickets, plane tickets, or boarding passes.
Do not post passports, house keys, or license plates.
Do not bask in the location.
Do not post your child's name, school information, itinerary, etc.
Be sure to pay attention to other photos that contain personal information.
Otherwise, the sunburner has no intention, and the viewer has a heart.
It's hard to know what people are doing with your information.
7: Participate less in online debates, make less extreme remarks, and make less enemies with others.
Maintaining a rational and friendly lifestyle is also important to prevent doxing.
In the age of the Internet, everyone may be "running naked".
Once you provoke a ruthless person and encounter "human flesh unboxing", you may be very devastated.
We call on the relevant authorities to strike hard, severely punish the lawbreakers, and protect the public's privacy.
Don't let most people run naked or even be harmed without realizing it.
At the same time, we must also raise our privacy awareness.
Protect your privacy and don't give it to others.
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About the Author
The author of this article is Li Yue. A popular writer, a neo-feminist, and a craftsman who writes solidly. With reason and wisdom to accompany the growth of thousands of readers. The new book "Living Soberly" is selling well on the Internet.