Entrepreneurs' personal information is being sold at a very low price! Not one, but a huge amount of data!
The reporter's exclusive investigation found that a platform called "Tankecha" is selling entrepreneurs' personal information on a large scale, claiming to cover "200 million+ enterprise databases" and "1 billion+ clue contact information". The reporter made a simple inquiry and found that the mobile phone numbers of many well-known entrepreneurs such as Zhong Sui, the founder of Nongfu Spring, were sold on the platform.
Another platform that sells entrepreneurs' personal information on a large scale is called "Leadsell", which claims to "cover 270 million+ enterprise business information, 530 million+ contacts, and is listed on the Shanghai Data Exchange (hereinafter referred to as the Shanghai Data Exchange)". The reporter also found that a number of entrepreneurs' mobile phone numbers were on sale on the platform.
Confirmed by the entrepreneur himself or a person close to the entrepreneur, the reporter verified that the mobile phone numbers of Zhong Sui, the founder of Nongfu Spring, Qiu Guanghe, the founder of Semir Clothing, Li Shuirong, the chairman of Rongsheng Group, Tang Lixin, the chairman of Xinshang Group, Zhang Hongfu, the actual controller of Mixue Bingcheng, Lin Sheng, the founder of Zhongxuegao, and Qin Lihong, the co-founder of Weilai Automobile, are all owned by him and are in use.
In addition, the reporter checked the real-name authentication information of the corresponding mobile phone number of Qian Ying, the actual controller of Muyuan shares sold on the platform, Zhou Qunfei, chairman of Lens Technology, and Nie Yunchen, the founder of Heytea, through Alipay transfer, which is consistent with the name of the entrepreneur.
According to the Hurun Report, a number of entrepreneurs (families) whose personal information was leaked exceeded 10 billion yuan, including but not limited to Zhong Sui (450 billion yuan), Li Shuirong of Rongsheng Group (68 billion yuan), Zhang Hongfu of Mixue Bingcheng (28 billion yuan), Tang Lixin of Xinshang Group (17 billion yuan), and Qiu Guanghe family of Semir Clothing (15.5 billion yuan).
Visitor: 980 yuan per year, 5,000 can be checked per month
"Accurate telemarketing directory, just come here to find it!" "If you have business to talk to the boss, you can go to the customer to check if you find the boss's phone." "Screening and exporting the phone number of corporate shareholders, and the real-name authentication data is accurate." "Triple real-name verification of the telephone number of the corporate shareholder." The circle of friends who visit customer service is full of similar advertisements.
According to the official website of Tankecha, the platform covers "200 million+ enterprise databases and 1 billion+ clue contact information".
"980 yuan per year, 5000 enterprises can be viewed every month", this is the platform's quotation. According to the maximum number of queries, the price of an entrepreneur's personal information is only 0.016 yuan. This means that a large-scale query of the mobile phone numbers of entrepreneurs such as Zhong Sui and Li Shuirong at an annual price is equivalent to about 2 cents a piece.
Is it really as the platform says, it can provide the mobile phone numbers of a large number of entrepreneurs? Are these phone numbers real and valid? The reporter decided to find out.
Logging in to the website, the reporter noticed that the platform has three functions: "verifying legal persons, querying enterprises, and matching batch enterprises". In the query enterprise function, you can enter information such as company name, person name, product name, brand, and address. The entrepreneur's phone number is set in the contact box of the business details.
The reporter randomly selected some well-known listed companies from the "Brand Value List of China's Listed Companies", and added some unlisted well-known enterprises, and found that the mobile phone numbers of ten well-known entrepreneurs were on sale after a simple search on the customer search, namely: Zhong Sui, the founder of Nongfu Spring, Qian Ying, the actual controller of Muyuan shares, Qiu Guanghe, the founder of Semir Clothing, Li Shuirong, chairman of Rongsheng Group, Zhou Qunfei, chairman of Lens Technology, Tang Lixin, chairman of Xinshang Group, Zhang Hongfu, the actual controller of Mixue Bingcheng, and Lin Sheng, the founder of Zhongxuegao, Nie Yunchen, founder of Heytea, and Qin Lihong, co-founder of NIO (in order to protect personal privacy, the mobile phone number shown in this article is coded).
Confessional Information
Zhang Hongfu's personal information
Qin Lihong's personal information
Li Shuirong's personal information
The reporter noticed that many names in the contact information column were not displayed with their full names.
How to ensure the accuracy of the number? The sales staff of Tankecha said: "The phone number of the legal person or shareholder is the data after real-name authentication. Add the name of the legal person or shareholder to the phone number, and then jointly verify the real name with the three major operators. After you open a membership, you have the permission to view the data after real-name authentication. ”
The reporter asked whether there is data cooperation with telecom operators? The officer replied, "Yes." ”
The person showed the reporter the interface after opening the membership. Taking Qin Lihong as an example, although the name is still "Qin**", the platform has added the label of "key person" and "similar to the name of the legal person" on this piece of information.
Screenshot of the message sent by the salesperson to the reporter
So, can the part marked with "*" be restored?
According to the platform, the principle of the function of "verifying key people of the enterprise" is that "the verification system simulates the product logic of manual and Alipay transfer to confirm the name, with an accuracy of up to 99.9%".
The reporter tried to check one by one through Alipay transfer in the same way to confirm the real-name information of the mobile phone number sold on the platform - the surname and tail word, which are consistent with the name of the corresponding entrepreneur.
Are these numbers really owned by entrepreneurs?
The reporter contacted the entrepreneur himself or people close to the entrepreneur through various channels, and confirmed that the mobile phone numbers of Zhong Sui, Qiu Guanghe, Li Shuirong, Tang Lixin, Zhang Hongfu, Lin Sheng, and Qin Lihong sold on the platform were all owned by him and were in use.
A large number of entrepreneurs' personal phones are sold at the price of annual subscriptions, where does the platform get these private data?
The reporter noticed that the phone sources of well-known entrepreneurs such as Zhong Sui, the founder of Nongfu Spring, were mostly marked as "other" or "intelligent association", and the number marked on the platform was concentrated in May or July 2023.
The source of the number of Qian Ying, the actual controller of Muyuan shares, is relatively special, and it is displayed as a web portal, and the "earliest appearance time of the whole network" is September 2018. Click on the source link of Qian Ying's number, and the webpage jumps to Shunqi.com, Likusou Yellow Pages.com, Sou.com, and Search.com, which completely display Qian Ying's phone number, which is consistent with the display of Tankecha. The above-mentioned website associated the phone number with the name of Neixiang County Muyuan Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd., but the reporter found that in fact, the company has changed its name to Neixiang County Muyuan Technology Co., Ltd.
Four external websites show Qian Ying's contact information
Lead-up Cloud: Listed on the Shanghai Data Exchange with a number of certificates
What's more, the seller also carries out telemarketing business directly to the intended customers.
"Provide the phone number of the boss in charge that is more than ten times more accurate than the enterprise check and the Tianyan check." "Ranked first in the industry, the database is listed on the Shanghai Data Exchange." "Tencent Venture Capital's shareholding sales cloud, specializing in big data customer search system and intelligent outbound call system." "270 million pieces of enterprise data have been filed with the state." This is the introduction of the sales staff of Shanghai Weiwenjia Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Weiwenjia) when telemarketing. The customer acquisition system under Wewenjia is called Lipinyun. "We are mainly looking for sales-oriented enterprises, as long as you do B-end (enterprise users) business, this product will definitely be useful. The annual package is 16,800 yuan for a complete set of data, and the intelligent outbound call robot is 5,000 yuan, which can make 1,000 calls a day. The salesperson said.
A business card from a salesperson
The reporter noticed that the salesperson's business card used the Tencent logo, and the WeChat name was also specially marked "Tencent Incentive Cloud ~ XX", but the word Tencent did not appear on the sales contract template presented by him.
Tencent responded to reporters: Tencent is a minority shareholder of Leadsellyun, accounting for less than 9% of the shares, does not participate in the company's daily operations, has never authorized it to use Tencent's logo (logo, trademark), and is not aware of the "large-scale peddling of entrepreneurs' phone calls". Tencent has contacted the management of Remarketing Cloud as soon as possible, asking the company to fully verify the situation, and if there is any illegal operation, it must be stopped immediately. Tencent also reserves the right of recourse against infringement.
The salesperson also mentioned: "The National Small and Medium Enterprise Development Foundation also holds a few hundred percent of our shares. ”
Upon inquiry, the shareholders of Weiwenjia include Shenzhen Tencent Industrial Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (holding 8.98% of the shares) and Shenzhen Guozhong SME Development Private Equity Investment Fund Partnership (holding 4.56% of the shares). The latter is 25% owned by the National Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Development Fund Co., Ltd.
Weiwenjia equity relationship Image source: Qichacha
The person showed the reporter the commemorative certificate of the listing of the data product of the Shanghai Data Exchange's "Enterprise Industry and Commerce Panorama Query", the record certificate of the classified protection of information system security and the certification certificate of the ISO27001 of the information security management system.
The reporter checked the listing certificate of "Enterprise Industry and Commerce Panorama Query" and found that the product description corresponding to the certificate did not contain the permission to "provide the contact information of the legal representative", and the company's other listing certificates on the Shanghai Data Exchange did not contain the license.
Information on the listing certificate of the "Enterprise Industrial and Commercial Panorama Query" of the sales cloud
Resale Cloud is also selling entrepreneurs' personal information. After logging in to the sales cloud, randomly enter the parameters, and the system will screen out nearly 200,000 companies for the reporter every time the reporter sets the search name to search for enterprises with specific words. Click to view details, only to see multiple mobile phone numbers appear on the right side of the screen.
Similar to Tankecha, the full name of the person corresponding to the mobile phone number in the Lead-to-sell Cloud system is not displayed.
"This is called avoiding legal risks, we can't show our full names, and it violates personal privacy by showing our full names." "But we labeled it 'the same name as a legal entity.'" ”
The reporter randomly selected a number of companies and searched for the contact information of entrepreneurs such as Lu Zehua, president of Xinhua Zhongsheng Investment Management Co., Ltd., Li Mingshun, founder of Haodai.com, Zhao Qi, legal representative of Xinlian Equity Investment (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., Ai Sanjiang Anwaier, legal representative of Haikou Caifu Trading Co., Ltd., and Feng Guohua, legal representative of Hangzhou Lin'an Yuchuan Machinery Co., Ltd. Through Alipay transfer, the reporter checked the real-name authentication information of the corresponding mobile phone number of the above-mentioned entrepreneurs sold on the platform one by one - the surname and tail word, which are consistent with the entrepreneur's name.
Some of the personal information of entrepreneurs on the cloud
After confirming with the entrepreneur himself or a person close to the entrepreneur, the reporter verified that the phone numbers of Li Mingshun and Lu Zehua sold on the platform were indeed owned by him.
How does Resale Cloud obtain a large amount of personal information of entrepreneurs?
According to the system page, information sources include e-commerce platforms, recruitment websites, enterprise service platforms, exhibition registration information, bidding websites, web portals, life service websites, etc.
Specific to the above-mentioned enterprises, the source of the numbers of Lu Zehua and Zhao Qi is "intelligent analysis", and the source of the numbers of Li Mingshun and Feng Guohua is the portal website.
For the source of the data, the reporter asked a number of sales staff of Leadsell, and they gave three statements: first, after the big data captures the phone, it matches the name of the legal representative on the industrial and commercial information, and at the same time cooperates with the three major operators to learn the real-name information of the phone; the second is to pay fees to major platforms and purchase information; The third is to use the "big data + hyperchain analysis" technology to capture and integrate the information of various platforms.
Both China Mobile and China Unicom denied selling users' personal information
As for the data source, the sales staff of Tankecha and Lipinyun also mentioned the cooperation with the three major telecom operators.
Is that really the case? The reporter interviewed the three major operators.
China Mobile replied to reporters that it did not sell any users' personal information. China Mobile has always attached great importance to the protection of customers' personal information, and has formulated a series of systems such as the Measures for the Management of Data Security of China Mobile. The first is to establish the "five prohibitions", which explicitly prohibit the disclosure or trading of customer information, and those who violate the prohibition will be dismissed according to the severity and transferred to the judicial authorities in accordance with the law. The second is to refer to the bank's "vault model", implement "key operations, multi-person completion", and ensure that all operations involving sensitive customer information are strictly approved and controlled and comprehensively recorded and audited through technical means. Third, where sensitive operations are involved, instant SMS reminds customers to ensure that customers have the right to know.
China Unicom replied clearly: "There is no leakage or sale of entrepreneurs' mobile phone numbers." From the perspective of the company's management system, the disclosure of personal information is definitely not allowed. ”
As of press time, the reporter has not received a reply from China Telecom.
Is it illegal to collect and sell the contact information of entrepreneurs, shareholders and executives? What responsibilities will be assumed?
Gao Fei, a lawyer at Shanghai Baigu Law Firm, who has long been deeply involved in the field of Internet information monitoring and rights protection, told reporters that the large-scale collection and sale of entrepreneurs' phone numbers on the above-mentioned platforms violated the Personal Information Protection Law and Article 253-1 of the Criminal Law, and was suspected of constituting the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information. In addition, if there is "credential stuffing", it is also suspected of constituting the crime of destroying computer information systems. Gao Fei also said that the implementing entity will bear criminal responsibility, and because the amount of personal information collected and sold by the above-mentioned platforms is huge, it is a serious circumstance and should be punished heavily within the scope of sentencing.
(The original title "The personal information of well-known entrepreneurs has been leaked on a large scale, involving Honey Snow Bingcheng, Rongsheng, Semir, Weilai, etc., with an average of about 2 cents a piece!") Sellers say data hundreds of millions)
[Source: National Business Daily]