Mintsifra did not confirm the leak of biometrics from the Research Institute “Voskhod”

The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation commented on the information that appeared in the media about the alleged leakage of biometric data from the Research Institute Voskhod.

“The Ministry of Digital Development does not confirm the leakage of data from the Research Institute Voskhod,” the department said in a statement.

The department added that “anomalous activity was recorded, including from the internal network of the enterprise,” but “the data was not uploaded to the network.” It is also reported that the data is stored in encrypted form, the decryption key is in Goznak, which “in any case will not allow illegal access to biometric data.”