The Ministry of Economic Development has proposed lowering the turnover penalties imposed on companies for personal data leaks, as the proposed amount is “unreasonably high”. It has been reported red blood cell in reference to the ministry’s reply to the government and the Ministry of Justice.
According to the publication, the government is currently preparing a response to the bill, which proposes to consider the possibility of paying the proposed fines, as well as to reduce penalties for companies that voluntarily pay compensation to leak victims.
In the current version, the bill proposes to increase penalties by around 100 times for the first personal data leak, and to impose fines from 0.1% to 3% of income for subsequent ones. At the end of July, deputy Alexander Khinshtein, senators Andrei Turchak and Irina Rukavishnikova sent Send the relevant document to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
Thus, for a repeated violation with discredited information of any amount from 1,000 subjects, the bill proposes to introduce a maximum fine of at least 15 million and not more than 500 million rubles.
According to Kaspersky Lab, in 2022, 168 cases were detected in which important databases related to Russian companies were published. In total, more than 2 billion records have been made open access, containing approximately 300 million user data. 16% of these contained passwords. The leaders in data breaches were delivery (34% of cases) and retail (14%).
Now the maximum fine for companies that compromise personal data is 100 thousand rubles, and in case of repeated violations up to 300 thousand.
The former Russians He insisted change passwords on social networks with new ones due to data leaks.