How could such a "wild" situation happen?
"I was contacted by acquaintances from a well-known pawnshop chain. The reason was brilliant - they put the laptop up for sale, climbed into it to format it, and there were some military documents," Andriy Perevezii, an independent cybersecurity specialist and founder of the information security auditing company Disl.Tech, wrote on Facebook.
Programs such as BitLocker (for disk encryption - ed.), VPN, and other remote access were installed on the device.
"But, when he handed over the laptop, for some reason, he provided access. As a result, the device has a lot of work files, documents with the DSK stamp (for official use - ed.), coordinates of certain of our positions, etc.," the cyber expert writes.
Among other things, the laptop also had a file called "Passwords". The soldier also did not log out of Office 365. "A list of documents from which you understand that this is clearly not a sergeant or even a lieutenant. As for the device, it is an i7 H series, fresh, rtx 3070, 32Gb RAM, most likely it is a volunteer laptop," the specialist noted in the comments under the post.
"This information will be transferred to the DVKR (Counterintelligence Department of the SBU — ed.). If you are already selling your personal gadgets, reset them to factory settings, delete all personal data," the expert concluded.
