Chinese authorities few
days announced that they had uncovered a massive underground operation run by
Apple employees selling customers’ personal data.
According to a statement,
the Zhejiang police said that 22 people were arrested in connection of the
offense of which 20 of the arrested suspects worked as authorized Apple iPhone
distributors. The police said that the suspects stole apple users data from
Apple’s database which they later sold between 10 yuan ($1.50) and 180 yuan
($26.50) which the police estimates that they made over 50 million yuan (47.36
million).
Data sold by these suspects
includes Phone numbers of Apple customers, names, Apple IDs, emails and other
data.
Following months of
investigation, the suspects were arrested during a coordinated raid organized
by the police in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Fujian province.