Court convicts pair over sale of data of ChineseBy Pao Chien-hsin and Jason Pan / Staff reportersThe Kaohsiung branch of the High Court has convicted a man surnamed Liu (劉) and a woman surnamed Hong (洪) for online purchases and resales of the private data of Chinese citizens. Liu and Hong were sentenced to five months and six months respectively for contravening the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法), the court said. They purchased the data from a Chinese contact who used the handle “Baoma Database” (寶媽數據庫), it said. Police were investigating a fraud complaint submitted by a man surnamed Tseng (曾), who implicated the trio, the court said. Authorities searched a rented premises in Kaohsiung in September 2021, seizing material pertaining to the investigation, including devices containing the personal data, it said.

Source: Taipei Times March 28, 2026 17:13 UTC