2.2 million passport entries of Russian citizens leaked online.
Hundreds
of thousands of Russians, including former government officials, have
had their passport data posted online in the country’s latest massive
data leak, the RBC news website
cited new research as saying Wednesday. The breach of at least
eight government websites, analyzed by privacy expert Ivan Begtin,
exposed the passport data of 360,000 people. Last month, Begtin disclosed that
2.2 million passport entries taken from online marketing websites were openly available online.
Source: The Moscow Times
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