The Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations, and Aerospace Industry in Kazakhstan has urged citizens to file claims for moral damages against the microfinance organization "Robocash.kz" (owner of zaimer.kz).
The Committee on Information Security has received over 5200 complaints from citizens regarding this issue. However, the committee clarified that they are not responsible for seeking compensation for moral damages.
The press service of the Ministry emphasized that seeking compensation for moral damages should be pursued through the judicial system. Therefore, citizens are advised to approach civil courts to exercise their right to seek compensation against "Robocash.kz."
On March 5th, the State Technical Service (GTS) discovered a leak of over 2 million personal data records of Kazakhstan citizens who are clients of the microfinance organization zaimer.kz (TOO "MFO "Robocash.kz"). GTS conducted an analysis of the leaked data and identified the affected clients from Kazakhstan.
In total, more than 36 million client data records from various microfinance organizations operating on the Robo.finance platform were exposed. These included 23.6 million from RF (zaimer.ru – 16.8 million, adengi.ru – 6.8 million); 5 million from the Philippines (digido.ph); and 2 million from Vietnam (vietloan.vn).
