Two individuals have been sentenced for illegally obtaining over 900 million pieces of personal information and using it for online harassment. Between 2023 and 2025, Lin and Wang used encrypted communication tools to steal vast amounts of private data, creating a website with 170 million entries. They profited by selling this data using cryptocurrency. The Haidian District People’s Court in Beijing sentenced Lin to seven years and Wang to five and a half years in prison, along with fines, for crimes including infringing on personal information and illegal use of information networks.
