The leak of real full names of users through Kinopoisk.ru
On October 8, 2015, Yandex “restarted” the Kinopoisk.ru website, which was purchased two years ago. Apparently, this is a major failure of Yandex. The number of critical messages from users of the old Kinopoisk grows like an avalanche .
A new film search has no obvious advantages over the old one, while there are a lot of minuses: the former functionality disappeared, which allowed sorting information according to many parameters, news and useful criticism of films somewhere pushed, English-language film titles are now out of sight, the interface is poor and unfriendly, everything slows down.
But what's worse is that now it is necessary to link the accounts of the former Kinopoisk to Yandex accounts. The open personal pages of users display the names of Yandex accounts, and above them are those hello! - The full name indicated in the "passports" of Yandex, a huge mass of which is quite a non-fictional, confidential data.
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Of course, no one asks for the consent to the withdrawal of real full names to the general access either from the Kinopoisk or from Yandex.
Now, by searching for the usernames of the Film Search users, you can collect a database consisting of real users' full names and Yandex account names, they are also mail, Yandex.Money and other services.
Through Google, nicknames like Mickey Freak are searched for and de-anonymized, or vice versa, in real names there is a bunch with a nickname like Mickey Freak:
The message to the Kinopoisk support service was sent a few hours ago.
A new film search has no obvious advantages over the old one, while there are a lot of minuses: the former functionality disappeared, which allowed sorting information according to many parameters, news and useful criticism of films somewhere pushed, English-language film titles are now out of sight, the interface is poor and unfriendly, everything slows down.
But what's worse is that now it is necessary to link the accounts of the former Kinopoisk to Yandex accounts. The open personal pages of users display the names of Yandex accounts, and above them are those hello! - The full name indicated in the "passports" of Yandex, a huge mass of which is quite a non-fictional, confidential data.
')
Of course, no one asks for the consent to the withdrawal of real full names to the general access either from the Kinopoisk or from Yandex.
Now, by searching for the usernames of the Film Search users, you can collect a database consisting of real users' full names and Yandex account names, they are also mail, Yandex.Money and other services.
Through Google, nicknames like Mickey Freak are searched for and de-anonymized, or vice versa, in real names there is a bunch with a nickname like Mickey Freak:
The message to the Kinopoisk support service was sent a few hours ago.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/268555/
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