The attackers put up for sale a database of drivers in Moscow and the Moscow Region. For 50 million lines with driver data, the seller requests $800. The database contains the names, dates of birth, phone numbers and cars of car owners.
like-minded people have put up for sale a database of drivers in Moscow and the Moscow region on the darknet. The $800 database contains 50 million lines with driver data registered in the capital and the Moscow region from 2006 to 2019. It was put up for sale on October 19, 2019. Information from 2020 is offered as a bonus for purchase, ” Kommersant reports, who contacted the seller of the archive.
The buyer can get the name, date of birth, phone number, VIN code and car number of the car owner from the database, as well as find out the make of the car, model and year of registration.
Possible causes of leakage
According to the seller, the information was obtained from an insider in the traffic police. The head of the Serchinform analytics department, Alexey Parfentiev, also calls the insider’s actions the reason for the leak. “It also looks more likely because the requirements of regulators to such structures as the traffic police regarding protection from external attacks are extremely strict,” he told the publication.
Today, data on registered cars and car owners are stored in the Federal Information System (FIS) of the Traffic Police. The FIS is responsible for processing, distributing, storing and exchanging data on traffic police accounting objects within the system and is a multi-level corporate network that includes subsystems at the regional and interregional levels.
FIS includes several subsystems with different functionality. For example, the “Wanted Vehicle” contains information about vehicles that are wanted. In the subsystem “Document”, there are personal data of citizens, and “Weapons”, includes information about weapons that were stolen or lost.
One of the most important functions of the FIS is the integration of all geographically distributed databases into a single system.