The court fined Rostelecom for leaking personal data

The St. Petersburg court fined the company Rostelecom for 60,000 rubles. for the leakage of personal data, the press service of the court reports.

“The court indicated that information was found in the messenger channel and on the website about the sale of data bases of customers and employees of PJSC. Based on the results of the analysis of fragments of these databases, the presence of full names, phone numbers, e-mails and positions of customers and employees was established. The data, among other things, coincide with the data contained in the Smart Home system,” the report says.

The court imposed a fine of Rs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier instructed the government to consider introducing turnover fines for companies that have leaked personal data of Russians by July 1, 2023. The instruction was given following the meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, held on December 7, 2022.

The Mintsifra has been discussing the idea of ​​introducing turnover fines for leaks since April 2022. In July, the ministry announced that it had begun preparing a relevant bill and plans to submit it to the fall session of the State Duma. It involves the introduction of amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses, according to which the company where the leak occurred can be fined 1% of the annual turnover. The amount of the fine will rise to 3% if the company tried to hide the problem. Now the Code of Administrative Offenses provides for fines for data leakage for legal entities in the amount of 60,000 to 100,000 rubles, in case of a repeated offense – up to 500,000 rubles.