MOSCOW Reuters - Russian tech giant Yandex said on Tuesday that fragments of its program code had been leaked online, with a preliminary investigation showing violations of some of its internal policies.
The Dutch holding company said in a statement that the company is taking this matter extremely seriously and has initiated a thorough investigation into the cause, content and implications of the leak.
It said there was no evidence that users' personal information had been impacted, but it added that the code contained the contact details of some of its partners.
Many of these and other issues that came to light after the code leak have been fixed or are in the process of being fixed, it said.
Since Russia sent its armed forces into Ukraine last February, websites of many Russian companies and news websites have suffered sporadic hacking attempts.
In March, a data leak exposed the personal details of more than 58,000 people on Yandex's food delivery app, Yandex.