The Volgograd court arrested a suspect in the theft of Sberbank client data

The Central District Court of Volgograd arrested Anton Buturlakin, an employee of the National Collection Service (NSV) collection company, suspected of stealing personal data of Sberbank clients, for two months.

During the court session, the representative of the investigation stated that Buturlakin, trading in client information on the Internet, managed to receive 40 thousand rubles as a reward.

The suspect wrote a confession and pleaded guilty to the deed. Meanwhile, the investigation claims that Buturlakin was detained while trying to escape from the Volgograd region. He faces up to five years in prison.

“I completely accept, I want to ask for forgiveness. In the information that was published by third parties, there were no card numbers, there was an account and only the amount of debts that people did not pay for 5-10 years, nothing could be done with this information. It was sold to a person who is engaged in bankruptcy, he planned to help these people, ”Buturlakin said.

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• In early October, Kommersant reported a possible leak of data from 60 million credit cards of Sberbank customers. The bank acknowledged the data breach of only 5,000 customers. They said that the information was stolen by one of the employees.
• On October 24, Kommersant spoke about a new leak from Sberbank. According to the publication, a database of a million lines with full details of borrowers, as well as records of customer calls to the bank's call center, is being sold on the Internet.
• On the same day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the capture of a suspect in the sale of the database - a resident of Volgograd from the collection agency "NSV", who used the pseudonym "Anton 2131" on the Internet.