On August 25, Russian programmer Leonid Evdokimov delivered a presentation at the “Chaos Constructions” IT conference in St. Petersburg, where he presented a paper titled “SORM Defects” about the public availability of Russian Internet users’ personal data.
It turns out that Russians’ mailing addresses, telephone numbers, login names, and geolocation coordinates are openly available. Evdokimov found evidence that this personal data was published by equipment the government uses to spy on Internet traffic. The published data even includes information from residents of Sarov, a ‘closed town’ where Russia conducts secret nuclear research. It took more than a year to patch the vulnerability discovered by Evdokimov.
Personal data of thousands of Russians leaked via government online surveillance system SORMRead More
