Avito 2022

In 2022 a massive data collection event occurred targeting Avito the largest Russian classifieds platform. Using automated parsing techniques threat actors harvested information from over one million active advertisements. The incident exposed sensitive user details including direct contact numbers and physical addresses. A significant portion of the data highlighted whether the seller used the internal temporary number protection service or a real phone number. This event demonstrates the risks of large scale scraping where public facing data is aggregated into structured databases for potential exploitation or marketing spam.