China Railway clamps down on third party ticketing application

The third party train tickets booking apps are usually overwhelmingly wooed during the Chinese Spring Festival since most provide better chance to get a ticket home than the official service, 12306. However, the scandal of personal data breaches has sparked users to worry over cybersecurity of accessing such online agents, and quite a few of them have started fretting about online ticket purchases. Fortunately, government authorities are taking measures to suppress the rampant growth of illegal “data collectors” hiding behind “fast ticketing platforms” by preventing them from using multiple IP addresses to access a large number of railway tickets, and advocating users to resort to official or authorized channels.