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2025: Sentence against former sysadmin - suspended sentence for installation in a ritual agency of software with a leak of data on the dead
On January 31, 2025, the Sovetsky District Court of Astrakhan issued a verdict against the former system administrator of the State Budgetary Health Institution of the Astrakhan Region "Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Medicine" (GBUZ JSC "TsMK and SMP"). The man received a suspended sentence for installing software in a ritual agency that allowed unauthorized access to data on the dead.
According to the investigation, defendant K. (full name is not disclosed), at the direction of the head of the technical and software department of GBUZ JSC "TsMK and NSR," installed software on the computer of the head of the ritual agency "Memory House," with which you can remotely connect and extract data from the regional information and analytical medical system (RIAMS) "ProMed." This is a specialized software package that allows you to automate the processes of collecting, processing and storing medical, economic and statistical information in the region's health care system.
InThanks to the established software, the head of the specified department and the head of the "House of Memory" received confidential personal data of deceased citizens from RIAMS "Promed." How this information was used in the future is not specified.
The system administrator was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 5 of Article 274.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - unlawful impact on the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation. The defendant pleaded guilty in full, agreed with the charge, and also confirmed all the circumstances of the crime. He was sentenced to five years of suspended imprisonment with a restriction on the right to engage in activities related to access to the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation for a period of three years.[1]