HomeNewsChina’s Taobao Offer For Sale Stolen Email Accounts Belonging To Top Universities CHINA’S TAOBAO OFFER FOR SALE STOLEN EMAIL ACCOUNTS BELONGING TO TOP UNIVERSITIES

Recently, The email accounts from top universities across the world being sold on Taobao, the largest consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce platform in China.The accounts offer various benefits, which include registration to software developer programs, discounts from certain retailers, as well as access to academic databases.

The investigation began with a Chinese language search for “edu mailbox” in Taobao, which returned 99 results related to stolen university email accounts. The most expensive account was listed at ¥2400 RMB ($390.80 USD), while the cheapest was only ¥0.98 RMB ($0.16 USD).

19 educational institutions in the US were robbed of the accounts, among the owners being MIT, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Purdue, Columbia, Cornell, University of Chicago, and New York University.

In China email accounts was stolen from 14 institutions. South East University, Peking University, Shanghhai Jiao Tong University, Hong Kong University and China University of Geosciences were among the owners.