Local police have arrested a computer database manager accused of stealing more than 140,000 pieces of personal information about newborn babies and their parents from a Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau database , police announced at a press conference Wednesday . The suspect , surnamed Zhang , 30 years old , earned 30,000 yuan ( $ 4,727 ) selling the information while he worked as technical manager for a company that maintained the health bureau 's database , according to Yu Song , vice captain of the Zhabei district police 's economic crime department . From the beginning of 2011 until April 2012 , Zhang accessed the database twice a month from his home computer , downloading the information that then sold to a manager at Shanghai Roadway D&B Marketing Services Co , the Shanghai subsidiary of the US commercial information firm Dun & Bradstreet Corp. The local company was shut down in March on charges of illegally trading personal information received from various sources . Police have arrested another 47 suspects who sold stolen personal information to the firm . ;