A database of 70,000 Binbank customers leaked to the Internet, which was merged with Open Bank in early 2019. According to experts, this is the fault of the Bank of Russia, which at the stage of the introduction of the interim administration did not bother to check the information security of the credit institution. According to lawyers, clients who suffered as a result of a data leak have a chance to return funds in court.
It is known that for 5 thousand rubles ($77) dealers can get access to the name and surname of the client, find out passport details and place of residence.
Ashot Hovhannisyan, the founder of DeviceLock, said that the sold base consists of clients who at one time applied for an Elixir credit card. According to him, the database was sold to one wholesale buyer, and now several small underground dealers are engaged in trade in personal data.
In addition, according to law enforcement agencies, since the beginning of 2019, about a hundred former clients of Binbank lost their funds and filed a report. The amount of theft from the accounts is from three to one hundred thousand rubles ($ 46 – $1535). It is possible that the data leak affected the actions of Bank fraudsters.
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) sent a written request to Open Bank to clarify the situation. The letter contains a requirement to provide information on the reasons that led to the leak of personal data of bank customers (name, passport details, telephone number and address of clients), about the persons who committed the leak, as well as on the measures taken to eliminate the consequences of the incident.
According to Roskomnadzor, an untimely warning about leaks of personal data threatens the security of personal data of citizens.
Open Bank has denied information about the leak of personal information about Binbank depositors. The Open Bank Press Service stressed that there is no evidence that the leaked database has any relation to the clients of Binbank.
