The press service of the department reports.

“The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office organized a check of reports on the sale on the Internet of a database of motorists in Moscow and the Moscow region, which contains information about vehicles, the names and phone numbers of car owners,” the statement says.

It is noted that during the audit, an assessment will be made of compliance with the requirements of federal legislation on personal data.

Earlier, the media reported that the attackers allegedly put up a database with personal data of about a million drivers in Moscow and the Moscow region for sale on the Internet.

Yevgeny Gnedin, head of information security analytics department at Positive Technologies, in an interview with Izvestia newspaper, assessed the danger of data leakage of VPN service users.