UBK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped the work of Telegram bots for the dissemination of personal data

The Department for the Organization of the fight against the Illegal Use of Information and Communication Technologies (UBK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia has stopped the work of Telegram bots related to the dissemination of personal data of Russians. As a result of the operational actions, the organizer was detained. This was announced on November 2 by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk.

"The activity of the resource was related to the processing of large amounts of data collected as a result of leaks from various sources. According to search queries, users were given information about residential addresses of citizens, places of work, incomes, bank accounts, vehicles, as well as a large number of other unique records," she wrote in her Telegram channel.

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