Tencent-Assisted Public Security Guardian Plan Uncovers USD498 Mln Cybercrime Cases
Liao Shumin
DATE:  Jan 15 2018
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
Tencent-Assisted Public Security Guardian Plan Uncovers USD498 Mln Cybercrime Cases Tencent-Assisted Public Security Guardian Plan Uncovers USD498 Mln Cybercrime Cases

(Yicai Global) Jan. 15 – China's main judicial bodies and financial regulators cooperated with Tencent Holdings Ltd's "Guardian Plan" that aims to prevent cybercrime. Some 160 major cybercrime cases have been uncovered under the plan, which led to arrest of 3,800 suspects in 2017.

Ministry of public security, supreme people's court, supreme people's procuratorate, ministry of industry and information technology, People's Bank of China, China UnionPay, S.F. Holding Co. [SHE:002352], China Unicom and other organizations have jointly announced their participation in the plan yesterday as the Guardian Plan 2018 conference kicked off in Beijing.

The uncovered cases under the plan involves cybercrimes amounting to CNY3.2 billion (USD498 million) and illegal collection of more than 10 billion pieces of citizens' personal information, said Zhu Jingsong, head of Tencent's Guardian Plan.

The new cybercrimes are emerging every day with their methods constantly upgraded, said Pony Ma, chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings. "We see that domestic criminal gangs have reached the world-leading level. They leverage artificial intelligence and neural network to decode the login verification codes, and AI itself has accelerated their speed in stealing the users' information from enterprises' databases." Pony Ma warned.

"In 2017, Tencent helped the police crackdown the largest domestic platform that decoded verification codes through artificial intelligence, and further uncovered the entire underground illegal industrial chain, from database hacking and decoding verification codes to illegally selling citizens' information and conducting online internet fraud," Tencent co-founder added.

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Keywords:   TENCENT,Cybercrime,Privacy