Cyber Criminals sell copies of passports, Individual Taxpayer Number, Insurance Number of Individual Ledger Account in addition to driving licenses of Russian citizens inward Telegram channels.
Businesswoman Maria Podlesnova constitute channels that position out personal data.
"If y'all create a Telegram search in addition to y'all type in"passport", y'all volition respect channels alongside thousands of passport data, ITN or Insurance Number of Individual Ledger Account", - she wrote inward her Facebook page.
Most of these channels were created inward belatedly 2017 in addition to early on 2018. Users of Telegram tin easily purchase dissimilar versions of the documents. For example, photos of passport in addition to residence permit cost 100 RUB (108 INR). If y'all desire to purchase to a greater extent than documents, such equally ITN or Insurance Number of Individual Ledger Account, the toll volition increase upwards to 150 RUB (163 INR),
How create photos of valid passports look inward the populace domain in addition to who buys them?
One of the possible vector is that cyber criminals oftentimes hack into the database of micro-finance institutions in addition to larn photos of documents.
"People oftentimes mail photos of their passports to unknown organizations or upload them to file sharing sites to accept permanent access to the scan. As a result, an unlimited issue of people tin larn access to the photos", — said Vladimir Zykov, IT-specialist, Director of the Association of Professional Users of Social Networks in addition to Messengers.
Those documents in addition to photographs of soul permit attackers to purchase a SIM card, hack accounts inward social networks or register for car-sharing services that accept online verification.
It should last noted that the sale of personal information of citizens via the Internet violates the police trace of the Russian Federation "On Personal Data". It prohibits the collection in addition to dissemination of personal information without the consent of the citizen. Violators volition last fined or fifty-fifty imprisoned for upwards to 2 years.
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