The company’s experts found the DeviceLock data leak of nearly 5 million users in Russia, presumably from one of the portals; the database contains contact details and surnames, names and patronymics of users, according to RIA Novosti founder and technical Director of the developer company systems against data loss DeviceLock Oganesyan.
"a Set of files was released yesterday, it is likely that this upload from the database of the portal SuperJob. In total in all files contains 5 million rows, after the cleaning, which takes remains about 4.8 million rows. Files can be downloaded for free," he said.
Files according to hovanesian, contain surnames, names and patronymic, gender, date of birth, phone number, email address, city, desired level of wages and the name of the mobile operator, region and time zone users.
Leakage could occur due to existing vulnerabilities in the database server, the expert said.
According to Hovhannisyan, the base is similar in scope and format with the data of portal SuperJob appeared on specialized forums in early 2017, so not all information may be relevant. "Database contains no payment information, so will be used most likely for spam. Possible attempts to use it for fraudulent activities in the field of recruitment, for example, offers a paid publication or distribution summary", he added.
