Russia’s ‘Probiv’ Market Sold Out After Ukrainian Spies Invade Database Buffet
KEY POINTS
- •Russia has allowed a parallel illicit market called 'probiv' for over ten years, involving corrupt officials selling data access.
- •This shadow ecosystem includes participants like police, bank employees, and low-level security staff across government and corporate sectors.
- •Recently, Ukrainian spies exploited this leniency, prompting Russia to crack down on the sprawling data-leak black market.
For over a decade, Russia’s 'probiv' market—named after a verb that terrifyingly means 'to punch into a search bar'—has been a black-market buffet for data thieves, peddling access to secret files via corrupt cops, sneaky bank clerks, and shadowy security folks. The state wilfully ignored this sprawling scam because hey, convenience trumps privacy. But now, Ukrainian spies have turned this leaky information pipe into a personal LinkedIn cheat sheet, forcing Mother Russia to slam the brakes on their own data-sided Black Friday. It’s like if your dodgy Craigslist dealer suddenly started tipping off the police.
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Russia tolerates a market where cops and bank clerks sell your secrets, then whines when actual spies swipe customer loyalty.
Russia’s data leak party was fine until Ukraine crashed it and RSVP’d as spies. Plot twist: corrupt officials now gasping for air.
The probiv market: where Russia’s feds made illegal data sales so comfy, they forgot who their real enemies were—hipster spies from Ukraine.
Source: Theguardian | Published: 12/26/2025 | Author: Pjotr Sauer
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