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Russia anymore but it is still importing parts and honouring its service contracts for existing customers.
2.9 Personal data of three quarters of the Russian population stolen in 2022
Over the past year, the data of 75% of all Russian users leaked from Russian companies. Loud leaks happened almost every month, and from the data that got into the network, unknown volunteers laid out interactive maps for open access, where they added stolen data from the Russian services themselves. To deal with the growing number of leaks, the government is going to use turnover fines, but whether this will help the situation is an open question. We understand why the business continues to allow large-scale leaks and what the user can do to at least somehow protect himself from them.
This week, DLBI, a data breach intelligence and monitoring service, published data on all known Russian leaks that occurred over the past year. The calculation included both well-known cases, such as leaks from Yandex.Food, Delivery Club, SDEK and Gemotest, as well as over 260 examples of a smaller scale.
The results are disappointing: if you combine all the data and clear them of repetitions and errors, then a total of 99.8mn unique email addresses and 109.7mn unique phone numbers got into the network last year, follows from DLBI calculations. And if we consider that the majority of Russians have only one number, then we can say that in 2022 alone, the data of 75% of all residents of Russia leaked, said the founder of DLBI Ashot Oganesyan.
It is difficult to assess exactly how much the volume of unique data leaked last year grew in the past year, Oganesyan says in a conversation with The Bell. So far, no one has assessed the full extent of the leaked data, and it is not clear how much they duplicate those that were published before. “But the volume of non-unique data has grown by at least an order of magnitude, and leaks from Yandex Food, CDEK and other large companies have played a key role, as a result of which tens ofmns of lines fell into the hands of hackers at once,” he explains.
In total for 2022 1.5bn records about the Russian users got to a network, counted in Kaspersky Lab. Last year's growth interrupted the trend to reduce the number of leaks. In 2021, their number fell by 40% y/y, according to Infowatch. True, it must be borne in mind that we are talking here only about those leaks, information about which was made public. The Network Freedoms project estimates that there were 60 leaks from large services in 2022, while only 41 such cases became known from 2019 to 2021.
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