Yesterday, leakers posted a magnetic link to what they claim are “Yandex git sources”, including 44.7GB of files stolen from the company in July 2022. The code base allegedly contains all of the company’s source code except for its anti-spam rules.

Software engineer Arseniy Shestakov analyzed the leaked Yandex Git repository and said it contained technical data and code for the following products:

Yandex search engine and indexing bot

Yandex map

Alice (AI assistant)

Yandex Taxi

Yandex Direct (advertising service)

Yandex mail

Yandex Disk (cloud storage service)

Yandex Marketplace

Yandex Travel (travel booking platform)

Yandex360 (workspace service)

Yandex cloud

Yandex Pay (payment processing service)

Yandex Metrika (Internet analytics)

In a statement to BleepingComputer, Yandex said their systems were not hacked, and a former employee leaked the source code repository: “Yandex was not hacked. Our security service found internal storage in the public domain Code snippets of the library, but the content is different from the current version of the repository used in the Yandex service.” A repository is a tool for storing and manipulating code, which is used internally by most companies.

Yandex also stated: “The repository is needed to process code, not to store personal user data. We are conducting an internal investigation into the cause of the leak, but we have not seen any threats to user data or platform performance.”

It is reported that this leak does not contain any customer data, so it does not pose a direct risk to the privacy or security of Yandex users, nor does it directly threaten the leakage of patented technology.

The leaked repository only contains the code, another important part is the data, and the key parts, like the model weights of the neural network, etc. are not leaked, so it is almost useless. However, leaked code creates the possibility for hackers to identify security holes and create targeted exploits.

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In this regard, Chery Automobile’s Russian representative office confirmed that it has cooperated with Yandex. Commenting on this, Dmitry Ignatiev, Manager of Corporate Sales and Used Cars Department of Chery Automobile Russia, said, “We are providing them with leased cars with guaranteed commercial use.”

Yandex is not a rental car company, but intends to be an intermediary between cab companies and car manufacturers and arrange cab supply matters with the guarantee of its use for cabs. To ensure fleet renewal, Yandex will probably need more than 50,000 new vehicles per year.

Taxi previously used models from Kia, Skoda and Volkswagen for the largest “economy” market, which is no longer at the center of the market.

The shortage of cars for Russian cab companies, including due to the epidemic, is further exacerbated by the fact that several automakers have chosen to leave Russia in 2022 amid sanctions.

Citymobil reports that cab companies are now actively pursuing cars to renew their fleets, as there is little left on the Russian market. Fleet owners have begun looking for new suppliers among Asian manufacturers, and the average cost of both foreign and domestic cars in Russia has doubled.

In April, car-sharing service Yandex.Drive faced lease expirations that could have caused them to lose a third of their fleet orders. At the time, Yandex’s main customer said it no longer wanted to supply cars at old prices due to higher rates, and issued quotas for cabs and car-sharing services, before the cost of a “big rental” car grew from 79,000 rubles to 96,000 rubles (about RMB 10,944).

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