Facebook stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, the Krebs on Security website reported and confirmed the company itself . The corporation found no signs of data abuse and promised to notify everyone who was affected by the incident. More. Facebook is investigating bugs in the security system, due to which from 200 to 600 million user passwords in clear (unencrypted) form ended up on the servers of the company's employees.

In the final of Transaero’s bankruptcy, its former owners enter the stage Former general director of Transaero Olga Pleshakova. Photo by ITAR-TASS/ Marina Lystseva In less than four years after stopping the largest Russian private airline Transaero, as VTB decided to fulfill the long -standing dream of all its creditors and recover losses from its former owners of Olga and Alexander Pleshakov and Tatyana Anodina.

For a week that has passed since the global Facebook infrastructure failure , Telegram had millions of new users. The Bell found out where the messenger Pavel Durov was most fortunate. According to the APP Annie service, which tracks the download rating of mobile applications, in Brazil before the Facebook failure, Instagram and WhatsApp Telegram was approximately 300–380 in the Google Play store. On March 14, he climbed first place and lasted five days there.

In less than four years after stopping the largest Russian private airline Transaero, as VTB decided to fulfill the long -standing dream of all its creditors and recover losses from its former owners of Olga and Alexander Pleshakov and Tatyana Anodina. The bank requires no less than 249 billion rubles from them - these are all the debts of Transaero to the lesslers, banks, fuel suppliers and services. Former general director of Transaero Olga Pleshakova.

The rapid spring cleaning of the governor's corps took away five governors. All departed are aging and/or problematic chapters of complex regions, who replaced them much younger.

Top managers of fintech companies fear that the recent problems of the startup Revolut, founded by Russian Nikolai Storonsky, will undermine investor confidence in the entire sector as a whole, writes Bloomberg. Businessmen fear that in the process of rapid growth, the company may simply lose sight of the key rules of the market. But the company is already taking steps to save its reputation - it recently began hiring specialists with decent and long-term experience in the banking sector.

Forbes magazine has published an updated ranking of Russian billionaires by income. It was headed by two businessmen who were getting rid of Russian assets. The first place in selling Putin’s former son-in-law Kirill Shamalov’s stake in Sibur was taken by “newcomer” Sergei Galitsky, who in 2018 sold his stake in Magnit to VTB Bank for 138 billion rubles. In second place is Mikhail Prokhorov, who sold shares of UC Rusal and the Brooklyn Nets basketball club.

The fight in the government for the Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway megaproject has acquired a real financial dimension. The Ministry of Finance wants to allocate 112 billion rubles, provided for the construction of its site, to Novatek’s Arctic project, writes RBC. Read more. Novatek needs money for the Utrenny terminal for the Arctic LNG 2 plant. The gigantic (21 million tons per year) terminal in the Gulf of Ob will be federal property, but it will be built by Novatek.

The Russian presidential administration is considering a Kazakh option with a “leader of the nation” as a way to keep Vladimir Putin in power after 2024, reported Bloomberg , citing sources close to the Kremlin. But this is not the only option. More. Bloomberg named two options for the future of presidential power in Russia, each of which suits a part of the political elites. Putin is president for life.

Debit cards turned out to have a big advantage over credit cards: even banks will not be able to deduct more funds from them than they have in the account. The Supreme Court (SC) ruled in favor of the Russian, to whom Sberbank issued a loan at 40% on a debit card, writes . Vedomosti More. The Supreme Court considered the case of Denis Porozov, a resident of the Perm Territory. In 2012, Porozov received a debit card from Sberbank without the possibility of an overdraft.

The reform of business checks was supposed to reduce their number. Instead, it grew one and a half times Photo: AGN "Moscow" Two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin, in a message to the Federal Assembly, gave business new promises to facilitate administrative pressure. The attachment of small business checks after the supervision reform, which was supposed to solve the same problem, shows : the number of checks has become no less, but more.

The fight against excessive inspections of small businesses turned into its opposite: the control departments proposed to increase their number by one and a half times. The government's good initiative was buried by simple bureaucratic methods, writes . Vedomosti More. The three-year "supervisory vacation" for small and medium-sized businesses was supposed to end on January 1 this year. This resulted in 690,000 audits being scheduled by agencies for 2019 instead of 412,000 in 2018.