case of creating a punch shop on the Hydra darknet market. This was reported by the press services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office.
13 people are involved in the case, several of them worked in the Pension Fund and the Federal Tax Service. In addition to the databases of these departments, they, according to investigators, sold information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Bureau of Credit Histories and banks on Hydra.
The store, according to the press service of the police, had been operating since 2018 until the arrest of two of its leaders, Sergei Yurtsovsky and Andrey Sadyrev in February 2020 near St. Petersburg. During this time, according to the case file, they sold the data of about 6.5 thousand people.
In addition to the Leningrad region, the defendants in the case also lived in St. Petersburg, Moscow and the Moscow region, in the Sverdlovsk region, Krasnodar and Primorsky territories. The Prosecutor General's Office names in its release the names of ten defendants. Data on the case has not yet appeared in the court file.
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Hydra, which was considered the largest darknet platform for anonymous drug purchases, stopped working in April 2022 after the German police closed its network of servers. It was also possible to buy leaked databases at the crypto market.
According to the Russian service of the BBC, in Russia, police officers, the Federal Tax Service, employees of banks and mobile phones were involved in cases of selling personal data from databases. operators. After an investigation into politician Alexei Navalny about the FSB officers involved in his poisoning in 2020, cases of leaks were filed against police officers from Samara and St. Petersburg.