The Ministry of Finance of Russia will take control of the theft and leakage of the personal data of citizens. The agency has signed a contract with TC Integration, which will monitor the darknet, hacker forums, and Telegram channels.
The amount of the contract of the Ministry of Finance is 24.3 million rubles ($326,000). Monitoring of personal data leaks should start working already at the end of January 2022.
TS Integration will manually and automatically collect information about the appearance of personal data on the darknet, tracking "cybercriminal forums with both open and restricted access", Telegram channels and hacker resources, applications for data exchange between software developers. In addition, the contractor will monitor the media reporting data theft. At least 300 resources are subject to monitoring, including those located in the Tor network.
It is assumed that the company will send weekly reports to the Ministry of Finance on all leaks, and on critical ones - on a daily basis, as well as to conduct a statistical analysis of the darknet. The Ministry will be able to transfer information about the identified leaks to the authorities, telecom operators and state-owned companies, which may be a potential source of information about citizens.
Experts believe that the monitoring system will make it possible to timely find and stop at an early stage the leakage of personal data, their sale or posting in the public domain, as well as respond in a timely manner and initiate an investigation.
Earlier, the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, Alexander Khinshtein, said that virtual space is becoming more and more real, and problems arising in the digital environment can carry not imaginary, but tangible threats. He called personal data leaks one of the most pressing topics.
