Telegram found a channel with leaks of data from Russian security officials

After the protests on January 23, an open channel appeared on Telegram with the personal data of police officers and

Russian Guards who participated in the arrests. The owners of the channel use programs for recognizing faces from photographs and databases leaked to the network.

Kommersant writes about this.The publication reports that about 9 thousand people are now subscribed to the channel. The names of security officials, photographs, telephone numbers, links to pages on social networks and even information about their relatives are published there. Anyone can anonymously upload data to the channel.

Kommersant recalls that earlier in the State DumaThey introduced a bill according to which the data of security forces can be hidden. Experts believe that the publication of personal data of citizens, regardless of their profession, is unacceptable and illegal.

A source in the law enforcement agencies clarified that it is extremely difficult to find the owners of the Telegram channel. According to him, there are difficulties when interacting with the messenger.