{"id":51483,"date":"2021-10-20T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T09:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51483"},"modified":"2025-09-02T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:57:11","slug":"beltelecom-employees-accused-of-selling-personal-data-of-security-forces-for-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/beltelecom-employees-accused-of-selling-personal-data-of-security-forces-for-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Beltelecom employees accused of selling personal data of security forces for cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Belarus, two employees of the state telecommunications company Beltelecom will be tried for transferring personal data of third parties to administrators of extremist Telegram channels. <a href=\"https:\/\/sk.gov.by\/ru\/news-ru\/preview\/esli-nado-to-ja-mogu-probit-i-rodstvennikov-rabotnikov-rup-beltelekom-ozhidaet-sud-10549\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0430\u0435\u0442<\/a> Investigative Committee.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, a 24-year-old sales specialist and a 35-year-old electrical engineer sold the personal data of more than 150 people, including heads and employees of various law enforcement agencies, judges, journalists, education and healthcare workers, and public figures.<\/p>\n<p>One of the accused, according to the agency, received about $300 in cryptocurrency for disclosing the data.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"837\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sajt-oplata.jpeg\" alt=\"\u0421\u043e\u0442\u0440\u0443\u0434\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432 \u00ab\u0411\u0435\u043b\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0430\u00bb \u043e\u0431\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0432 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0436\u0435 \u0434\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0441\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432 \u0437\u0430 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u044e\u0442\u0443\" class=\"wp-image-153464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sajt-oplata.jpeg 837w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sajt-oplata-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sajt-oplata-768x451.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><figcaption>Data: Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the investigation, law enforcement authorities seized equipment and mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants face charges under eight criminal articles.<\/p>\n<p>The case materials have been handed to the court. The accused are in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog reported that U.S. authorities arrested a Navy officer and his spouse on suspicion of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-navy-employee-sold-secret-data-for-100000-in-cryptocurrency\">selling secret data for cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Belarus, two employees of the state telecommunications company Beltelecom will be tried for the disclosure of third-party personal data to administrators of extremist Telegram channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[239,1162,1256],"class_list":["post-51483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-belarus","tag-court-cases","tag-privacy-and-personal-data"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51485,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51483\/revisions\/51485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}