Searches conducted by SBU at Kyiv and Odesa offices of Yandex

Searches conducted by SBU at Kyiv and Odesa offices of Yandex

According to a report on the SBU website, the management of Yandex.Ukraine illegally collected, stored and transferred to Russia personal data of Ukrainian citizens, in particular data about their occupation, lifestyle, housing, residence, work, leisure, sources and amounts of income, telephone numbers, email addresses and accounts in social networks.

The special services discovered that the citizens, whose information was transmitted to Russia, included law enforcement and special forces officers, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other units participating in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) in the east of Ukraine, and employees of state authorities and government.