Through the actions of what Yandex Food described as a “dishonest” employee, Bellingcat’s investigative journalists, among others, obtained records of around 58,000 customers with seemingly harmless order information such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, delivery instructions, billing information and meta data.

Data puzzle is put together

However, if one puts such information in relation to other information that already exists, for example from older leaks, it can lead to very interesting findings, which in this case are unlikely to please Vladimir Putin, his domestic secret service, the FSB, or the foreign secret service, the GRU. Bellingcat checked various telephone numbers that were noticed in the context of the poison attack on Alexei Navalny and that could not yet be assigned to any person.

And some numbers were actually found in the leaked database and names and addresses could now be related to one another. The findings from this are not surprising, as they provide more in-depth information about military locations or secret service offices. The Russian “Yarovaya” laws from 2016, which oblige Russian telecommunications service providers to store customer data, come into play. These should only be available to the security services, but they often become public. In this case at the expense of the security services ( HERE ).

In its reporting, Bellingcat only published data that was the subject of research interest. Any personal data of uninvolved people that is not relevant to the public has been obscured.

We have only used this leak to explore further information about the subjects of previous investigations – many of whom are members of Russia's security services and military.

We only used this leak to obtain further information about the individuals who were the subjects of previous investigations - many of whom are members of the Russian security services and military.

(translated using the online translation service Deepl.com)

The poison attack on Alexei Navalny

One of Bellingcat's investigations was telephone numbers that were related to the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, but which have not yet been assigned to any people or organizations. This leak made it possible to assign at least one number to a person who works at a research institute in a Moscow suburb. The man's exact role remains unclear, but he spoke on the phone with FSB secret service agents involved in the Putin assassination attempt, in addition to many phone calls in the period leading up to it, both on the night of Navalny's poisoning and the next morning.

The military and secret service are also playing ballistics

The published order data also made it possible for the first time to locate various locations of military and security facilities of the FSB and GRU and to verify suspected addresses. In some cases, the messengers responsible for delivering the food were given clear instructions on how to approach the obviously military facilities. Waiting times, certain barriers, notices of “closed areas”, calls ten minutes before delivery, etc., information that very clearly does not show normal home or office addresses, but points to the military background ( HERE ).

Putin's 'secret' daughter found

Another highlight of the leak is the identification of the current residence of Putin's "secret" and recently disappeared alleged daughter.

Navalny supporter and lawyer Lubov Sobol ( HERE ), who left Russia in August 2021 because of expected judicial restrictions on her freedoms, has published her findings from the Yandex food leak on her Twitter account, which Vladimir Putin is unlikely to like at all. She reveals the whereabouts of a young woman said to be Putin's “secret daughter,” Luiza Rozova.

18-year-old Elizaveta, called Luiza, Rozova is considered Putin's illegitimate daughter with his ex-lover Svetlana Krivonogikh. However, the Russian president has never acknowledged paternity. At the beginning of the war, the young Instagram influencer was exposed to a massive shitstorm because of Putin's aggression towards Ukraine. Her own account @luizaroz_ with almost 100,000 followers had been orphaned since November 2021. He can no longer be found at all now. She herself had disappeared, which fueled rumors that Putin had his alleged daughter taken to a safe nuclear shelter ( HERE ).

The data leak has now made it clear that Luiza Rozova is in her mother's apartment.

And likes to order food from Yandex Food. Like many other young people. According to the Bellingcat report and the information about Rozova's mother's apartment, new evidence of corruption was also uncovered ( HERE ).

Conclusion

Due to a data leak at the Russian food delivery company Yandex-Food, the order information of around 58,000 customers was published. The investigative platform Bellingcat and other teams such as supporters of Alexei Navalny have been given access to the data. By comparing and linking existing data, new insights could be gained and, for example, the specific addresses of the locations of military facilities and secret service offices could be determined or verified. The leak also made it possible to clarify the whereabouts of Putin's alleged daughter, who disappeared at the beginning of the war.


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