Roskomnadzor has recorded the leak of more than 600 million personal data records since the beginning of the year

“During 9 months of 2024, Roskomnadzor registered 110 cases of databases containing more than 600 million records distributed on the Internet,” Roskomnadzor’s press service quotes TASS.

The department’s deputy director, Milos Wagner, highlighted that the most problematic period was January-February, when 510 million records were published online in 19 cases. But 500 million were gone in a single incident.

At that time Roskomnadzor could not identify the source of the leak, so it was impossible to judge the relevance of the lost data. They could also be outdated.

If we take this larger leak into account, in 18 cases around 10 million lines were leaked into the network. This trend continues (with a slight increase): in October, around 9.7 million records were distributed across 13 cases. On average, between 550 and 750 thousand records per leak.

During the entire year of 2023, about 300 million records were leaked to the network due to 168 leaks. In 2022, there were more than 140 breaches involving 600 million records.

Recall that within the framework of the debate on amendments to the law on turnover fines for personal data operators who leaked personal information of users, the chairman of the working group of the All-Russian Union of Insurance Informatics Insurers, Vladimir Novikov proposed compensating the Russians for “moral damage” from the publication of their data and assessed this damage at between 1,000 and 5,000 rubles.