It is becoming increasingly difficult for government agencies and companies to keep growing amounts of personal data of citizens safe. In just one day, it became known about two leaks related to government agencies. As a result of one of them, the data of 700,000 Russian Railways employees became publicly available, and as a result of the second, the data of hundreds of Russians leaked into the network, presumably through the SORM wiretapping system.

After raising the subsistence level, 18.6 million Russians, or 12.7% of the population, remain in black poverty, Rosstat calculated. A year ago, this figure was 12.5% ​​of the population, reminds RBC. The increase in poverty year-on-year is due to the fact that the cost of living in the second quarter of 2019 increased by 7.1%, to 11,185 rubles, Rosstat explained, although inflation rose only by 5%.

Russian Railways lost the data of 700 thousand employees, and the equipment for SORM was convicted of broadcasting user coordinates It becomes increasingly difficult for state bodies and companies to maintain the growing volumes of personal data of citizens. In today, today it became known about two leaks associated with government agencies.

Facebook users around the world are having difficulty logging into the service from a computer. The failure was especially large-scale for residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg. 81% of Russian users who reported an outage have problems using the site. After successfully logging into the service, they are faced with what they describe as a "white screen of death" - the user sees an empty tab.

On Monday, at the age of 77, the British PR man and political strategist Tim Bell died , who helped to come to power Margaret Thatcher and was erected with her dignity with her, and then worked around the world, including Russia, where Boris Yeltsin advised.

The long-time chairman of the board of the Volkswagen concern, Ferdinand Piëch, the grandson of the creator of the legendary “Beetle” Ferdinand Porsche and the man who turned Volkswagen from a regional automaker into a global auto giant, has died. However, it was the corporate culture he cultivated that became the prerequisite for “dieselgate” - an indelible stain on the company’s reputation, writes Reuters.

The new prime minister of Ukraine is likely to be the deputy head of the president’s office, lawyer Oleksiy Goncharuk – according to the publication Ukrainska Pravda (access from Russia requires a VPN), tomorrow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will nominate him for the post of head of government. If 35-year-old Honcharuk is appointed, he will become the youngest prime minister in Ukrainian history.

The data of almost all Russian Railways employees leaked to the Internet - 703 thousand out of 730 thousand people, said Ashot Oganesyan, corporate data protection specialist, DeviceLock technical director, in the Habr.com tech blog. In his opinion, the leak can no longer be covered - it will appear in the form of a database in a couple of days. This is sensitive data: SNILS, address, phone number, photo, full name and specialty in Russian Railways.

Former Minister for Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov has become a defendant in a new criminal case - under the article on illegal participation in entrepreneurial activity (Article 289 of the Criminal Code), Abyzov's lawyer Alexander Asnis said. The investigation believes that in 2018 Abyzov, despite the ban imposed on him as a member of the government, was engaged in entrepreneurship personally and through proxies. The maximum punishment is imprisonment for two years.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Russia to pay €34,000 in the case of ex-employee of Hermitage Capital fund Sergey Magnitsky. What happened. The ECtHR found that the Russian authorities violated Magnitsky's right to life and failed to provide an effective investigation into the causes of his death. The lawyer's mother Natalya Magnitskaya and widow Natalya Zharikova were awarded €34,000 in moral damages.

The Renova Group of Viktor Vekselberg is selling LLC Greenhouses of the Regions, writes RBC . The buyer is the profile company "Greenhouse" co-owners of the agro-industrial group "Valley of Vegetables". Renova entered the greenhouse business in 2017, planning 100 hectares of greenhouses in the Sverdlovsk region, Perm region, Chuvashia and Komi. The complexes were to be based on the capacities of the energy company of the Vekselberg group "T-plus".

How the PR Robot "Fedor" overshadowed another promising project Photo: Roscosmos Today's docking with the ISS, albeit on the second attempt, the Soyuz MS-14 ship with the Fedor robot in the commander’s chair is no doubt the main story of the year for Roscosmos, although in the flight the robot played the role of a very expensive video camera and load.

Rostec's leasing subsidiary, Aviacapital-Service, is terminating a contract with Boeing for the supply of 35 737 MAX 8 aircraft in court. This is the first claim by a customer to cancel an order for an aircraft that has not been flying for almost six months. What happened. The fact that Aviacapital-Service filed a lawsuit against Boeing in the Chicago District Court was reported by the Financial Times the day before. Today, a company representative confirmed this to Interfax.

The docking with the ISS, albeit on the second attempt, of the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft with the Fedor robot in the commander’s chair is, without a doubt, the main story of the year for Roscosmos, although during the flight Fedor played the role of a very expensive video camera and load . We tell you how a businessman from Magnitogorsk, who fell ill with robotics, created his most successful PR project for Dmitry Rogozin, and we explain why it is unlikely to become a breakthrough. Origins.