CN Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau 2011 Misuse (Q12208)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | CN Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau 2011 Misuse |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2011
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Local police have arrested a computer database manager accused of stealing more than 140,000 pieces of personal information about newborn babies and their parents from a Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau database, police announced at a press conference Wednesday. The suspect, surnamed Zhang, 30 years old, earned 30,000 yuan ($4,727) selling the information while he worked as technical manager for a company that maintained the health bureaus database, according to Yu Song, vice captain of the Zhabei district polices economic crime department. From the beginning of 2011 until April 2012, Zhang accessed the database twice a month from his home computer, downloading the information that then sold to a manager at Shanghai Roadway D&B Marketing Services Co, the Shanghai subsidiary of the US comm (English)
