470万余名铁路乘客信息遭泄露！

A large amount of personal information about Chinese train passengers has been leaked, Beijing police said on Tuesday.

北京警方周二表示，有大量中国铁路乘客的个人信息被泄露。

The Beijing Public Security Bureau’s cyber security squad discovered on Thursday that data about more than 4.7 million passengers had been stolen and sold by an internet user identified as "deepscorpions".

北京市公安局网络安全保卫总队周四发现，一网络用户“deepscorpions”盗取并出售了470多万名乘客信息数据。

China’s national rail operator said on its microblog later that day that no user information had leaked from its widely used 12306 China Railway rail ticket booking site and denied online rumors it had been hacked.

当日晚些时候，中国国家铁路运营商(中国铁路总公司)在官方微博上发表声明称，人们普遍使用的中国铁路客票预订网站12306未发生用户信息泄露，并否认了网上有关该网站遭到黑客入侵的谣言。

After investigating, police officers tracked down a 25-year-old suspect surnamed Chen and detained him on Saturday at a tech company in the capital’s Xicheng district.

经多方调查，警方终于发现25岁的嫌疑人陈某，并于周六在北京西城区的一家科技公司将其逮捕。

Chen confessed to illegally purchasing 600,000 passengers’ online registration information from a tech company, and said he had not hacked the 12306 China Railway website. He also admitted obtaining personal information of over 4.1 million passengers through a third-party online booking platform.

陈招认其从一家科技公司非法购买60万乘客的网络注册信息，并且表示没有攻击12306中国铁路网。同时他也承认通过第三方预订平台获取了410万乘客信息。