NIZHNY NOVGOROD, 14 Sep. The check is being carried out in the Nizhny Novgorod region after the leakage of data about children from the portal of additional education, said the deputy governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region David Melik-Guseinov. Earlier, the Kommersant newspaper wrote that the personal data of children and parents registered in the navigator of additional education in the Nizhny Novgorod region had leaked into the network. It is noted that the database contains data of more than 48 thousand users — their surnames, names, patronymics, dates of birth, phone numbers and e-mail of parents, some SNILS are indicated.
Rostelecom has found out who is guilty of leaks of data from Russian business «According to preliminary information from the developers of the service» p52.navigator.child «, there was an unauthorized access to data from the account of one of the organizations that use the system. software and a technical vulnerability was found, which allowed partial access to the contact information of users, «the deputy governor wrote on his Facebook page. He noted that the technical vulnerability has been eliminated, and stressed that the reasons for the incident are being investigated by the software company LLC.» State of Children «, as well as the customer — the expert group of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. «The accounts of all organizations have been checked, an additional system for monitoring all requests to the system has been installed, the rules for filtering traffic on the software and hardware for protecting information on servers have been tightened,» Melik-Huseynov said.
Cybersecurity experts told what to do in case of data leakage According to him, the Nizhny Novgorod authorities «are closely following the investigation into the reasons for the appearance of personal information in the public domain.» «The Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of the Nizhny Novgorod Region is interested in the proper preservation of personal information, in connection with which additional security guarantees will be requested from the federal operators for the further use of the software,» the deputy governor said. , which contains information about sections and circles in different parts of the region. Parents need to register their child in the navigator in order to enroll him in classes.
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