Experts questioned the authenticity of the “base of those who bought certificates”

Experts interviewed by RBC believe that the database that appeared on the Internet of those who bought fake vaccination certificates, which was reported by Kommersant with reference to one of the sellers, may turn out to be a fake.

The Kommersant article mentioned a database worth $120, which contains passport data, SNILS, phone number and place of residence, as well as information about the date the certificate was received. it is assumed that it was collected from various sites that sold such data, and could serve, among other things, for blackmail (acquiring a fake vaccination certificate entails criminal liability).

However, the experts mentioned in the database raised questions. For example, Ashot Hovhannisyan, the founder of the DLBI data leak intelligence service, noted that the seller of the database had previously appeared in TELEGRAM chats, which mainly offered fake data.

As for this particular database, according to Oganesyan, it is more like unloading PCR tests from some database that people arriving from Central Asian countries do right at the airport. “Obviously, this is definitely not the data of people who bought a vaccination certificate,” he said.