As a result, Yandex admitted to violating its own “Yandex principles and corporate ethics” policy. We are talking about a violation of the policy of zero tolerance for errors and errors in the system: instead of fixing algorithms as a solution, interim measures were used, the code was insufficiently and patched as quickly as possible, which affected the quality.
Specifically, the leaked code snippets included parts of the Food and Taxi codes, along with partners’ contact details and other important information, along with priority support data for some users.
Yandex apologized for what happened and assured that it would make every effort to continue the establishment of technological ethics and to remove data that is not related to algorithms and project settings from storage (storage).
Source: Ferra
