Overview
- A website malfunction let a user see other cases by mistyping a complaint number, revealing that thousands of filings were publicly accessible.
- Journalist Maxim Kurnikov in Berlin collected more than 9,000 complaints and provided the dataset to The New York Times.
- The Times flagged about 6,000 war-related cases, closely reviewed roughly 3,000, and found more than 1,500 alleging irregularities tied to the war.
- Many complaints included corroborating evidence such as videos, photos, voice messages, medical reports, court records, and internal military documents.
- The exposed records dated from April to September 2025 following an IT system update, included highly sensitive personal data, were later removed, and officials declined to comment.