Personal data of 1.6 million MTS subscribers in open access

The open access to the Internet turned out to be personal data on 1.6 million MTS subscribers in Bashkiria and St. Petersburg - names, surnames, addresses and telephone numbers.

The database, published in the public domain on zhiltsy.net , contains the names, surnames and phone numbers of MTS subscribers, and in some cases their passport details and addresses. Fyodor Ponomarev, who discovered information about himself on this website, wrote a complaint to the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) on October 23 about this. Ponomarev also told reporters that the link to this site came to him through a spam mailing on the social network VKontakte. In the database, he found his old unused number for several years and the actual numbers of his acquaintances.

Roskomnadzor, represented by the head of the Bashkir administration of this department, Azamat Mukhamedyarov, whose phone also appeared in the database, is going to seek the closure of the site on which personal data of many Russians were posted.

According to representatives of MTS, the leak occurred in 2006. Having learned about it, the operator has tightened the rules for working with subscriber data. Another source close to the company indicates that the data was publicly available through the fault of the special services, and not the operator. What exactly, he did not specify. There are about 1,600,000 phones in codes 917 and 911 in the database - these are full names, addresses and in some cases passport details.
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via www.bbc.co.uk

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UPD Meanwhile, in the comments habrauser prompted another similar site nomer.org
UPD 2 Another habrauser noted that in fact the site zhiltsy.net continues to function .
UPD 3 FSB officers were listed in the topic ?