Chinese National Security Department: Illegal map data collection activities using virtual currency as rewards pose a threat to national security, and the public needs to be vigilant.

On February 20th, BlockBeats reported that the Chinese Ministry of State Security issued a warning to remind the public to be vigilant against certain overseas map companies that use virtual currency rewards to induce domestic personnel to illegally collect sensitive geographic spatial information using special equipment. These behaviors not only involve the illegal collection and real-time uploading of sensitive data to overseas servers, but may also offer high rewards for specific areas, attracting collectors to focus on collection and becoming accomplices to espionage. National security agencies have cooperated with relevant departments to investigate and punish such illegal behaviors in accordance with the law, timely blocking the risk of illegal data export and protecting national security. At the same time, national security agencies remind the public to increase their vigilance, consciously maintain the national geographic information security, and encourage the discovery of illegal foreign-related geographic spatial information data collection activities and related suspicious situations to be reported through formal channels.