Hacker Sells Data of 15M Kazakh Citizens
A hacker allegedly sold personal data of 15 million Kazakh citizens—78% of the population—in the Darknet, claiming the breach originated from the state eGov service. The data included passports, phone numbers, emails, work addresses, document scans, and passwords.
Consensus
- The personal data of 15 million Kazakhstan residents was allegedly offered for sale in the Darknet.
- The data includes passport details, phone numbers, email addresses, workplaces, scanned documents, and passwords.
- The seller claims the data was obtained through a breach of the state eGov service.
- The file size is 2.7 gigabytes and contains 47 million data rows.
- The price for the data is 0.5 Bitcoin, approximately $32,000 or 2.5 million rubles.
- Kazakhstan's Ministry of Digital Development did not confirm the breach but stated that technical verification is ongoing.
- Some of the published data does not match the official eGov portal records.
- The Ministry of Digital Development said additional information will be provided after the technical check concludes.
Points of divergence
- The data may be purchased by call centers in Ukraine. — vm
- Call centers in Ukraine are specifically feared to be potential buyers of the data. — tg_mash
- The hacker PalachPro previously hacked surveillance cameras across all Ukrainian regions, gaining access to over 6,000 real-time devices. — vm
- The eGov service had prior issues in early August when users could access other people's personal pages, and a financier received spam calls shortly after registering a company via the platform. — tg_mash
Coverage (2 sources)
- Mash: Hacker put personal data of 15 million Kazakhstans up for sale — Вечерняя Москва
- Hacker posted data on 15 million Kazakh residents on the darknet — this is three quarters of the country's population. The seller claims... — Mash