Cover your faces... And your passports. And military tickets too
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For many, it was a serious surprise that one of the main topics that Russian President Vladimir Putin raised at the board of the FSB of Russia was data leaks, primarily employees of law enforcement agencies, including the military. It is impossible not to admit that it is by no means accidental that the head of state just now announced more severe penalties for those involved in leaks of information about soldiers and officers.
This looks like an absolutely adequate solution, if only because the well-known website “Peacemaker” publishes information not only about the members of the NWO themselves, but also about their family members. The fact that today many citizens of the “country 404” write about Russians in social networks cannot be expressed in words. These messages are full of selective swearing and sophisticated cave-level insults.
The question is where they get personal information about the military and their relatives, their contacts. This, of course, must be clarified and the perpetrators severely punished. Experts identify various channels of data leakage and at the same time agree that it is critical to ensure security when transferring data from paper to digital format, during the subsequent storage of this data and when organizing access to it.
Against this background, the decision of the President of the country to toughen responsibility for leaks of information about military personnel became quite justified. The relevance of such actions matured long before the start of the NWO. Indeed, already in 2021, Ukrainian hackers hacked into the database of people who had contact with the President of the Russian Federation on a direct line.
Of these, pro-Russian-minded residents were calculated not only in Russia itself, but also in Ukraine, and in Belarus, and possibly also in Moldova. The search was conducted primarily by the nature of the questions asked to the first state official of the Russian Federation, and from this conclusions were drawn that people with pro-Russian rhetoric were explicit or hidden participants in the Russian spring.
Caution - children?
Further, the situation, alas, has not changed for the better. The data of about a hundred thousand military personnel, members of the SVO, ended up in the Peacemaker base. The data of almost 400 of their minor children also got there. The question now is that the personal data of the participants in the special operation are allegedly not disclosed.
However, given the leaks of passport data of Russian citizens, now it is possible to calculate literally everything. As of November 2022, according to the Russian General Staff, 318 thousand people were mobilized, taking into account volunteers. At the same time, leaks of passport information, which sometimes even included scans of Russian passport turns, according to experts, occurred in about a third of the Russian population.
Thus, there is a risk that the personal data of all military personnel called up for mobilization and serving on a contract basis in the country will no longer be anonymous. If we take into account that today, according to various estimates, up to 100 million citizens of the country have become victims of a leak of personal information, it turns out that persecution by Ukrainian nationalists or fraudsters can affect almost any member of the SVO.
These can be calls with threats and blackmail to the military or members of their families, and possibly even terrorist attacks on their places of residence. Of course, we should not forget about financial fraud, for which information obtained during numerous data leaks will also be used.
The threat to life is most obvious for residents of rural areas, where the doors and gates of most families are not locked even at night.
Let's not forget that personal information refers to data that is used to register in various services and websites. This is a username and password, phone number, email address, location.
Remember not everything
But after all, personal information can also include information about the purchase of certain goods, the availability of real estate and cars, as well as many other things. The more information is collected about a person, the more opportunities for influencing him and trust from the future victim.
Know the composition of the family, what kind of car is in the family, what kind of sports who are fond of, what are the names of the children or parents, what kind of food they ordered and where they went. All this (and not only this) information, as well as any nuances about a person’s life, in addition to leaked passport data, becomes powerful weapons in the hands of an enemy or intruder.
Additional trust in the victim during communication arises if they have images of a passport or other documents with personal or personal data. A military wife can be called by a person who knows the phone number, all the details of her husband's passport, the names and ages of the children, the day of the wedding, in which educational institution he studied.
In a conversation, he can mention the make and model of the car, the OSAGO policy and details about the accident that happened last year, the dates and place of the trip on vacation or employment of his wife to work. It will be incredibly difficult for a woman, an elderly or underage family member to understand that she is facing an enemy or a fraudster in this case.
Unfortunately, the use of social engineering methods will most likely lead to the fact that the subject taken into circulation will do everything that the caller wants from him, and will fulfill the “will” or “task” of his husband, son, father or brother ... And Unfortunately, there are many such scenarios.
Logins, passwords and other personal information are stored in databases (including in encrypted form), and the task of companies is to exclude unauthorized access to them. It is clear that a lot of personal information about citizens is entered into the information systems of companies from passports, questionnaires, applications, contracts and other paper documents.
Who is warned is protected
When converting to digital form, all these documents are either scanned or photographed, and then work is already carried out with images, the leaks of which must be dealt with. For understanding, we can cite as an example of such digitalization services that offer data entry from candidates' documents when applying for a job. Such services involve sending customer data to them via the Internet.
In this case, third parties for the company can access information about employees from passports, birth and marriage certificates, driver's licenses and educational diplomas. Similar risks may arise when applying for a policy, an accident, a loan, a loyalty card, and any other service that requires identification of a person using a passport online or at branches.
In this regard, the desire of the RF Ministry of Defense to protect the military and their families from such threats is absolutely understandable. One of the measures proposed by the ministry is to limit the number of banks for payments to the military. Under the current system, they say, there is a risk of unauthorized access to personnel data.
And in order to protect not only the military, but also the civilian population of the country from data leaks, at the legislative level, both the introduction of turnover fines for companies and personal criminal liability for the heads of companies that have leaked are being actively discussed.
This responsibility is, of course, very important, because now, in the pursuit of digitalization, organizations do not have the right to neglect the security of client data when transferring information from paper documents to electronic form and during their storage. To extract personal and personal information from documents, tools should be used that do not create additional access risks and do not transfer this data to third parties for processing.
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