Hackers for the second time stole the Central Bank database

Hackers for the second time stole the Central Bank database. Neither the investigation conducted by the Bank of Russia, nor the indignation of the deputies and a wide public outcry have prevented the onset of a new database on bank wiring. For 3000 rubles you can buy information for the fourth quarter of 2004 for three DVDs.

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An employee of one of the companies confirmed to Vedomosti that his wiring in the database is reflected absolutely correctly. According to him, colleagues from the marketing department are now carefully studying information about other market players to use them in competition - for example, with participation in tenders. According to Russian law, the use of information constituting commercial or banking secrets is punishable by imprisonment for up to three years (Article 183 of the Criminal Code).

The most loud transaction of the end of last year is reflected in the database - the auction for the sale of Yuganskneftegaz. On December 15, Baikalfinanciregraps and Gazpromneft transferred 49.35 billion rubles a deposit to the RFF account. On the same day, the Central Bank bought $ 1.75 billion from a large bank, transferring 49 billion rubles to it. On December 21, the money entered the bailiff service, and on December 30, the BFG transferred the remaining 211.4 billion rubles to the Ministry of Justice.

Many other operations, including the Central Bank itself, are visible in the database, for example, its intervention in the foreign exchange market: on December 29, 2004, he bought $ 2.1 billion on the MMCCUB, and on December 3 - 1.8 billion.

The press service of the Central Bank refused to comment.

Recall that for the first time, information about payments made by banks through the cash register centers of the Central Bank entered mass sale in February. Then the attackers got the data for a year and a half - from April 2003 to September 2004. This story made a lot of noise. State Duma deputies sent a request to the Prosecutor General to deal with the leak of "confidential information", and the Central Bank conducted an internal investigation into the leakage circumstances.

The chairman of the State Duma committee on credit organizations and financial markets Vladislav Reznik promised to send another parliamentary request to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a demand to follow the observance of banking secrets as soon as he became convinced of the authenticity of the base. True, for the last request, Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov did not answer in the 30 days allotted by law, the deputy added.

“The news surprised me about another leak,” Andrei Korotkov, director of IT, shrugs IT, “the Central Bank had enough time to take measures.” Korotkov states that this story harms the reputation of the entire banking system of Russia.

According to the newspaper, after the first publications, the bank’s employees were disabled recording devices in computers - drives, USB -boards, etc. “Two months ago, a new protection and access system was introduced,” says the Central Bank employee, according to which “scraps of bases may appear on sale, but not further than March 2005.”

According to the source in the Central Bank, the internal investigation did not reveal the perpetrators inside the bank, and the Central Bank provided its results to the security forces. The FSB is now being verified on the fact of leakage, the source close to the investigation told Vedomosti.