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The prosecutor's office identified a leak of the full database export and import operations in Russia for eight years


Yekaterina Korotkova, the representative of the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office reported that the Northern Transport Prosecutor’s Office revealed a leak on the Internet of a full database of export-import operations of Russian companies at customs posts over eight years.
“It was established that one of the Darknet sites has on sale a complete, regularly-updated customs database for all export-import operations of Russian companies for 2012-2019 (data for all customs posts of the Russian Federation),” said Korotkova.

According to her, the site contains full declarations of all participants in foreign economic activity of Russia, TIN of recipients, senders, information about the processed goods, indicating the Declaration numbers, the country of origin of the goods, surnames, first names, patronymics of their representatives, vehicle numbers, contact numbers, as well as information about risks.

"The customs authorities' databases on the website for acquiring contain information of limited access and personal data," added the representative of the Ministry of Transport and Trade of Ukraine.

The Prosecutor's office through the court demanded to recognize this information prohibited on the territory of Russia.

The court granted the claim. After entering into force, the court's decision will be sent to Roskomnadzor to include the resource in the Unified register of information, the distribution of which is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.

In December 2019, the Investigative Committee reported that during operational activities it was possible to establish a hacker who was to blame for the leak of personal data of several hundred thousand employees of the Russian Railways company on the Internet. A 27-year-old hacker from Krasnodar was charged with illegally obtaining and disclosing trade secrets and illegally accessing protected information.

Investigators found that in June 2019, the accused was able to access internal resources of the Russian Railways computer network. He copied the personal data of several hundred thousand employees, including managers, of Russian Railways and posted it on the Internet. The young man pleaded guilty to committing this cyberattack.


source https://www.ehackingnews.com/2020/03/the-prosecutors-office-identified-leak.html
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