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Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

86 points| drops | 4 years ago |sliv.top

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0x38B|4 years ago

> The documents contain full names, passport numbers, addresses, tax IDs, as well as the military units of ex-soldiers.

Original:

> В документах содержатся ФИО, паспорта, адреса, идентификационные коды, а также воинские части несения службы бывших солдат.

ipnon|4 years ago

Has this crisis been the equivalent of the Streisand Effect for Russian national cyber security?

robbedpeter|4 years ago

Kinda. Putin is ending up making Russia look more like a more powerful and unhinged version of North Korea than a legitimate world power. He might end up going way too far and alienating China.

Scary stuff, Putin seems like an "if I can't have it, nobody can" tyrant.

londons_explore|4 years ago

Will someone be working through this list and speaking to each family to try to encourage them to get their son/father/brother to defect?

5e92cb50239222b|4 years ago

It's pretty useless, probably. I've read a couple of interviews with family members of the captured soldiers (for example, ¹). They don't seem to have any idea where those soldiers are and have no way to communicate with them. Although it may all be lies in an attempt to lessen their guilt, considering the rest of her speech ("he didn't know where he was going, he didn't do anything, those bad Ukrainians for taking him prisoner").

¹ https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/02/27/ia-ne-schitaiu-c...

VWWHFSfQ|4 years ago

you're someone. Go for it

FooBarBizBazz|4 years ago

This would need official support, some kind of visa. The "Good Russian" visa.

Don't like what Putin, Inc. is doing? Hire away all the talent.

gnramires|4 years ago

Keep pressure on Russian's government to change, and let's keep our compassion towards the Russian people! Let this conflict cease.

austincheney|4 years ago

A few years back China obtained equivalent data on US service members from an OPM breach.

bladegash|4 years ago

Not just service members. It was most people who had ever held a security clearance, civilian and military.

Only ones not included were agencies that did not use OPM for background investigations (which was only one or two).

Even then, many of the employees of those agencies previously worked for the ones who used OPM’s systems.

icare_1er|4 years ago

There was a recent claim from the Anonymous of a similar dump... which turned out to be a fake. Is it the same ?

800xl|4 years ago

Why would Russian military personnel have Social Security Numbers?

wrs|4 years ago

It doesn’t literally say SSNs, but “идентификационные коды” which translates as (and sounds like) “identification codes”.

dottedmag|4 years ago

Russia has its own social security system, and it also uses numbers for identification.

Table headers are quite suspect, there is a column named "state, federal territory, etc". In Russian "state" refers exclusively to US states or Micronesia states, and "federal territory" refers exclusively to German feredal states.

aliswe|4 years ago

I think you are asking this as if they are receiving social security benefits? We all have these numbers in Sweden for example. Its birth date plus 4 unique digits amounting to a hash code (and gender)

punnerud|4 years ago

If they don’t have social security number (or ID) they can’t be protected by the Geneva convention

naavis|4 years ago

Why wouldn't they?

orf|4 years ago

Why wouldn’t they?

KiranRao0|4 years ago

Could someone help me understand what this does/is supposed to accomplish?

Qw3r7|4 years ago

Reduce morale among the Russian troops. Arguably a reason why Chechnya won out in the first was against them.

hirundo|4 years ago

This seems to be a positive example of doxing.

moralestapia|4 years ago

Erm ... no? Principles exist on both sides of the coin.