Leakage of real names of users through Kinopoisk.ru

    On October 8, 2015 Yandex “restarted” the Kinopoisk.ru website, purchased two years ago. Apparently, this is a major failure of Yandex. The number of critical messages from users of the old Kinopoisk is growing like an avalanche .

    The new Kinopoisk has no obvious advantages over the old one, while there are a lot of minuses: the former functionality has disappeared, which allowed sorting information by many parameters, the news and useful criticism for films have been pushed somewhere, the English-language movie names are nowhere to be seen, the interface is poor and unfriendly, everything slows down.

    But worse, now you need to bindformer Kinopoisk accounts to Yandex accounts. On the open personal pages of users, the names of Yandex accounts are displayed, and above them are the greetings! - Names indicated in Yandex "passports", a huge mass of which are completely unintelligible, confidential data.



    Of course, no one asks Kinopoisk or Yandex for consent to the withdrawal of real names in the public domain.

    Now, sorting by Kinopoisk's user IDs, you can assemble a database consisting of real names of users and Yandex account names, they are also mail, Yandex.Money and other services.

    Nicknames like Mickey Freak are searched and deanonymized through Google, or vice versa, according to real names, there is a bunch with a nickname like Mickey Freak:



    A message to Kinopoisk support was sent a few hours ago.

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