Files with a total capacity of 45 GB appeared on the network the night before. Judging by the names of the folders, the leak affected, in particular, search services, taxis and maps.
In the case of Yandex, it is unclear why exactly the guilty employee should be involved. In any case, there may be several options, says Comply lawyer Artem Safiannikov.
"Most likely, the source code of Yandex was protected by a trade secret regime. Or it can be considered as, for example, a secret of production, know-how. An employee who unlawfully distributed this code can be brought to disciplinary responsibility, direct damage can be recovered from him. But it will be quite difficult to prove the losses incurred by the company, given the fact that the merged code itself does not mean that it can somehow be used to the detriment of Yandex's activities. "
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