“Today, a person who stole a wallet with a thousand rubles has a more severe responsibility than a person who stole data and allowed to steal money from thousands of people,” Gref said.

He emphasized the need "to expand the corpus delicti in the Criminal Code, it is necessary to change the procedural legislation, which would allow to quickly fix (theft. - RT ) and, of course, it is necessary to tighten the punishment."

Earlier, Sberbank revealed the fact of leakage of customer credit card data - 5 thousand accounts were sold to one of the criminal groups in the shadow Internet.

Gref later stated that the consequences of this leak are minimal.

The head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina called for increasing responsibility for cybercrime in the financial sector.