Telecom workers charged with data theft

Three employees with three telecom companies were charged with illegally acquiring, providing and selling citizens' information at Chaoyang district court, the first such case in China.

The three people worked with the Beijing branches of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Netcom, prosecutors said on Tuesday, according to Mirror Evening News.

Zhang Ning, 28, worked at China Mobile's call center in Yizhuang. He was charged with changing more than 100 subscribers' passwords. The information was then sold to a private detective agency, which used the information to see the phone bills of people who were the targets of the investigation company.