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Darknet sells sensitive data of Russian citizens

According to Izvestia, a large database of Alfa-Bank customers, as well as other large Russian financial organizations, is being sold on the darknet. The information contains name, city of residence, account balance and cell phone.
The Alfa Bank customer database vendor said he was ready to download 5,000 records a week. The journalists were able to obtain a screenshot of a test fragment from this database with 64 entries and confirm the authenticity of the indicated cell phones through the rapid payment system. Two out of ten people called by journalists confirmed that they have accounts at this financial institution. Four refused to give any information, four more did not respond. Alfa-Bank itself has confirmed that it knows about the data breach of several dozen customers. However, they also noted that some of the information contained in that database is no longer relevant.
The seller of darknet's Alfa Bank database told reporters that he also has information about customers from other banks, including MKB and VTB. He is ready to sell 100 discs at 30 rubles each. It is true that this applies to these accounts with a balance of 5 to 300 thousand rubles. If the balance is over 300 thousand rubles, the cost will increase to 50-60 rubles per ticket.
Izvestia also contacted two other sellers who offered information about users of Gazprombank, VTB, Post Bank, Promsvyazbank, Home Credit Bank. Vendors have declared that they are ready to sell data in one go in large volumes - from 1 to 10,000 records per week. At the same time, the minimum size of the database for sale is 100 records at a price of at least 29 rubles for one.
Home Credit Bank has not confirmed the leak of customer information. VTB also did not report any cases of personal information being leaked. The rest of the financial organizations were unable to comment immediately on the situation.

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