Data from Land and Mortgage Registers of Poles available for purchase in Seychelles. Even politicians. Price? PLN 40

The land and mortgage register (KW) contains information on its legal status, e.g. mortgage encumbrance. We have heard about this data leak many times. One of the more famous cases was the situation in 2013, when a website located on 16 million mortgages took over information. , That this portal is still operating and boasts that the data comes directly from the Ministry of Justice, so it should be reliable. However, the resort itself dissociated itself from the suggestion that it should cooperate with the service, and in 2017 it submitted a notification to . However, the investigation was discontinued. Help was expected

Data from Land and Mortgage Registers of Poles available for purchase in Seychelles

Foreign companies could gain access to the said data, not necessarily illegally. From November 2019 to April 2020, after the decision of the chief surveyor of the country, Waldemar Izdebski, they were generally available on the government website geoportal.gov.pl. However, he blocked access to them, explaining that they contained too much sensitive data that could even allow identity theft. Interia, however, describes that this opened the way to these data by companies located in the Seychelles, Miami or London. And despite the fact that their activities in Poland are illegal, it seems impossible to hold them accountable.

– In Poland, such activity is illegal, but we have no possibility to prohibit this practice if it takes place outside the country. Potential actions in this respect may be taken by UODO – he explains in an interview with Interia. Adam Sanocki, spokesman for the UODO, believes, however, that making these data publicly available again will create other risks. According to the information obtained by Interia, the cost of revealing the number of any land and mortgage register is PLN 40. The more numbers, the cheaper. Buying three numbers at a promotional price costs PLN 100, and 100 numbers – PLN 1.5 thousand.

Millions of zlotys of income

“We received information about the requested records in just a few seconds. It also turned out that the problem is not, for example, the purchase of documents about politicians from the front pages of newspapers” – describes the portal that bought the numbers from a company in the Seychelles. The data of only one such company shows that from 2017 to 2021 it earned PLN 4.4 million. And there are probably more such companies. seven entities were to be reported to the prosecutor’s office.