Russian information security experts reported that databases containing customer information were published online. Channel 24 writes that the information of millions of Russians has entered open access.

Who was affected by the leak?

Victims of hacker attacks include:

• Auchan – Data of 7.8 million customers was known.
• Hypermarket “Tvoy dom” – 700,000 customers.
• Gloria Jeans clothing brand.
• Online mattress and mattress store “Ascona” – about 2 million data sets.
• Online bookstore Book24 – more than 4 million datasets.
• Building materials and decor store “Leroy Merlin”.
• The chain of “Bukvoed” bookstores has almost 5.5 million unique entries.
• “Eating at home.” Here we talk about Yulia Vysotska’s cooking show, which has become the object of a lot of memes lately because of her weird skills and weird food-burning practices. The leak contains the site’s database.
• “Tvoyo” clothing store.

According to researchers, the information was leaked by the same attackers who previously posted “SbyerThanks”, “SbyerPrava”, “SbyerLogistika”, GeekBrains courses and other dumps.

The data contained in the merged files can be found among first and last names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, delivery or pickup addresses, account creation and update dates, passwords in some cases, customer card numbers, social network logins. Each of the transcripts contains millions of information tapes about it. people Russian Apparently, no one even tried to calculate the total number of victims.

Some companies have already announced that an internal investigation has begun and will contact the police.

Such leaks can have various consequences. For example, databases of numbers or e-mail addresses can fall into the hands of various scammers. By having additional information about the person, they can create an entire strategy of deception that the victim can easily believe. For us Ukrainians, these data can be an excellent source of information for various journalistic research. For example, not so long ago, the project “Television Toronto”, thanks to one of the data sources in Russia, the entire Russian GRU unit, their names, places of work, past, present tasks and other data.