Kazakhstan reports the leak of confidential data of two million people

The State Technical Service has discovered that the personal data of more than two million people from Kazakhstan has leaked to the internet. All those people are clients of Zaimer.kz, a microfinance organization, the Ministry of Digital Development reported.

The data leak from zaimer.kz (the website belongs to Robocash.kz, LLC) was reported on March 5. Now, the State Technical Service is trying to identify people whose confidential information has been leaked to the internet. Authorities will notify them via eGovMobile, a public service.

«We are going to investigate this fact and launch an urgent examination of all those companies which were responsible for the data of regular people,» the agency said in a statement.

The government is going to call for operators responsible for potential violations of law to get rid of any legal breaches and will issue a fine for them. The sum of the fine may vary from $825 to $8,281, depending on who was responsible and how bad the violations were.

«In general, we have found data of more than 36 million clients of microfinance organizations registered in Russia (Robo.finance, 23 million), digido.ph (the Philippines, 5 million) and vietloan.vn (Vietnam, 2 million), among others,» the ministry reported.

According to eGov, Robocash.kz, LLC was registered in September 2020, in Almaty. Its first executive is Almaz Torutayev, while its founder is Robocash РТЕ. Ltd. As of May 29, 2023, this company was registered under Singaporean legislation, according to KASE.

As Kursiv.media reported last month, a group of Chinese hackers had had access to the infrastructure of Kazakhstani mobile operators for two years.