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Jun 17, 2021 · Information Security

How Illegal Web Crawlers Stole Over 1 Billion Chinese Users’ Data and Got Sent to Prison

A recent Chinese court case reveals that a university graduate used a custom web‑crawler to harvest more than 1.18 billion Taobao user records, which were then sold to a partner who ran fraudulent WeChat groups, leading to both perpetrators’ conviction for violating personal information protection laws.