The Customer Information Of The Uniqo Parent Company Has Been Leaked, And How Much Data Are Still Running Naked?

Following Facebook's deep exposure to the "data release door", the Japanese UNIQLO parent company has sold more than 460 thousand customer information in Japan, and the public has been somewhat worried about the leakage of personal information.

Although UNIQLO soon explained to the media that the incident did not involve China's website and information platform, it still rang alarm for domestic information security.

According to Symantec Corp's "Norton network security investigation report" released by the Symantec Corp, China is one of the countries most seriously attacked by cybercrime. In 2017, the economic loss of the 2017 Norton network security reached 663 billion, ranking first in the world, and it was nearly three times that of second Brazil (22 billion 500 million US dollars).

460 thousand customers of UNIQLO parent company disclose information leakage

In May 14th, UNIQLO's parent company, Japan's Fast Retailing, issued a statement. From April 23rd to May 10th, its brand UNIQLO and GU sales website exceeded 460 thousand customers, and personal information was not authorized to visit, which means that more than 460 thousand customers' information may have been leaked.

These accounts include information including customer names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mails, birthdays, receipt addresses and some credit card information.

The company said it had "patched" the vulnerabilities of the related procedures, cancelled the login password of the affected accounts, and asked the affected customers to reset the online store login password.

According to China Securities Journal (ID:xhszzb) reporter statistics, fast selling brand line, the highest proportion of revenue contribution is the UNIQLO series.

From September 1, 2018 to February 28, 2019, the proportion of income contribution reached 84.5%.

According to the relevant announcement, during the above period, the Greater China area of UNIQLO was affected by warm winter, but the profit and profit still recorded double-digit growth.

Among them, the mainland China's market revenue and profit growth rate remained at about 20%.

During the reporting period, the contribution of UNIQLO to greater China accounted for 22.3%, only in Japan.

After being attacked by hackers, UNIQLO quickly explained to the media that after investigation, the incident did not involve Chinese websites and information platforms.

Privacy data streaking continuously

Dodging the robbery of UNIQLO does not mean that it can evade all kinds of accidents that leak private data.

The universality and seriousness of information leakage are still increasing.

As early as March 2018, Facebook first exposed the largest data leakage in history.

A data analysis firms named CambridgeAnalytica has been burgled with personal data of up to 50 million Facebook users without permission from users.

In September 2018, Facebook broke out again, resulting in 30 million user information leakage due to hacker attacks caused by security system vulnerabilities, including sensitive information including name, contact mode, search record, landing location and so on.

The information security situation in China is also not optimistic.

According to the 2017 global information security survey released by PWC, the number of information security incidents monitored by mainland China and Hongkong enterprises in 2016 was as high as 2577, more than 2 times that of 2015.

The Symantec Corp Norton network security survey released by the Symantec Corp shows that China is one of the countries most seriously attacked by cybercrime.

In 2017, about 352 million of Chinese consumers had become victims of cybercrime, resulting in economic losses of up to US $66 billion 300 million, ranking first in the world, nearly three times as much as second Brazil (22 billion 500 million US dollars).

In 2018, Hua Hua group, one of the domestic brand hotels, was exposed to a large number of user data being leaked.

According to the revelations, hackers have sold about 500 million users of China's hotels under the "dark net" Chinese forum for 8 bitcoins, involving 130 million people. The Hua Hua Group has alerting the police and hiring professional and technical companies to verify the matter.

The express industry is also the high incidence area of personal information leakage. The name, address and telephone number of a large number of express waybills have been repeatedly sold and leaked.

It's very common to receive sales calls and text messages after losing the express shipping documents.

To this end, the Provisional Regulations on express delivery since May 1, 2018 put forward a number of provisions for the protection of personal information.

Among them, on the acquisition of personal information, it is prohibited to record user identity information other than name, address and telephone number on the express waybill, so as to reduce the "uncovered" of irrelevant information.

At the same time, the enterprises that illegally disclose user information will be fined 100 thousand yuan at the highest level, and may be ordered to suspend business for rectification until their express business license is revoked.

China's information security industry has entered a period of accelerated development.

The issue of information security has attracted the attention of all parties.

In May this year, the State Administration of market supervision and administration and the National Standardization Management Committee held a press conference, and other national standards such as the 2 basic requirements of "information security technology network security classification protection", "information security technology network security grading protection evaluation requirements", "information security technology network security classification protection safety technical requirements" officially released, and will be implemented in December 1, 2019.

It is understood that, on the basis of the 1 standard, the equal protection 2 standard pays attention to all directional active defense, security and trustworthiness, dynamic perception and comprehensive audit, and achieves the full coverage of traditional information system, basic information network, cloud computing, big data, Internet of things, mobile Internet and industrial control information system.

In addition to broadening the scope of protection, equal insurance 2 has changed in terms of legal effect, technical standards, security system, grading process and grading guidance.

China's information security industry is entering a period of accelerated development.

According to IDC data, the compound growth rate of China's network security industry is 30.79% from 2014 to 2017. It is estimated that the scale of China's network security industry will reach 59 billion 128 million yuan in 2020, and the compound growth rate will be 25.78% from 2018 to 2020.

According to Huaxin securities statistics, as of May 13th, there were 109 enterprises in the science and technology board, of which 4 were information security companies, namely, Shan Shi Ke, Heng Heng information, HengAn Jiaxin and ambroton.