Supreme People's Procuratorate: A criminal gang illegally sold job seekers' personal information to overseas pa

China's Supreme People's Procuratorate publicized a typical case of illegal personal information trading in which a 21-member ring led by Lin Moufeng harvested over 870,000 job seekers' records via fake job postings and sold them overseas, with the entire 7.46 million yuan (~$1.05 million) in proceeds settled in cryptocurrency before being converted to yuan by an accomplice surnamed Ning. According to the announcement on Nov. 2, the group registered corporate accounts on online recruitment platforms to collect applicant data, and after frequent account bans limited volume, built a front-end traffic team that impersonated job seekers to bribe HR staff at other companies for applicant data, and a back-end data team that supplied collection templates and aggregated the purchases. The case matters because it shows crypto settlement being used as the default rail for cross-border data-theft monetization, drawing regulatory attention to the intersection of personal information protection and virtual currency enforcement. Watch for further Supreme People's Procuratorate case disclosures, potential platform-side tightening of recruitment account verification, and whether yuan-conversion chokepoints like the Ning exchange node face targeted enforcement.