A Moscow court decided to charge Skyeng, an online English school, 60,000 rubles as a fine for leaking user data, writes RIA Novosti.
The judicial district of the Tagansky court did not appoint the highest punishment, part 1 of art. 13.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses provides for a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles. The scale of the leak was not named during the meeting.
The lawsuit is related to the June 2022 incident, when the data of 5 million users of the service, including emails, Skype identifiers and other information, entered the public domain. Then the scammers offered to buy the entire database for 40 thousand rubles.
The company itself did not admit that the cause of the leak was on Skyeng’s side. The data that is in open access is not related to the service, then claimed in the company.
In 2022, the Ministry of Digital Development proposed punishing organizations for leaking user data with billing fines. In May, the department agreed to a bill that would impose fines of 1% of annual revenue and up to 3% if the company failed to report the incident to the RKN in a timely manner.
By the end of the year, the document was finalized, and in January Vladimir Putin ordered to consider the introduction of fines for billing before July 1.
Author:
Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
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