{
  "id": 18004246,
  "title": "Russia’s FSB gets round-the-clock access to crypto exchange customer data starting in March",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/russias-fsb-gets-round-the-clock-access-to-crypto-exchange-customer",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-03T18:13:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/11/03/russia-s-fsb-gets-round-the-clock-access-to-crypto-exchange-customer-data-starting-in-march"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Starting in March 2027, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) will gain round-the-clock access to cryptocurrency exchange customers' personal data. This provision is found in a Central Bank document discussing a federal law on digital currencies and rights. The document was highlighted by Sarkis Darbinyan, co-founder of Roskomsvoboda, an internet freedom group. Market players, banks, industries bodies, and depositories had proposed restricting data access to the FSB, allowing it only upon request and not permitting access to private keys or transaction-signing tools. However, the Central Bank opted for the FSB's agreed-upon proposal. The FSB will receive customers' full names, passport details, taxpayer identification numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, transactions, bank details, account numbers, wallet addresses, IP addresses, login times, and correspondence between the platform and the customer. Implementing SORM, the system that grants this access, will cost \"a hell of a lot of money\" for equipment, integration, and maintenance, according to Darbinyan. The regulator has not provided simplifications for small exchanges, and larger groups will not be able to share a single connection point. Darbinyan questioned who would be the first to enter this new era of Russian crypto, with security services officers having access to their accounts. Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, had previously provided Russian security services data on one of its users, leading to that individual's trial for donating to Ukraine's military. Russian security services have also conducted raids on Moscow City crypto exchanges, alleging the use of stolen funds for Ukraine. Meduza, a news organization, is committed to transparency about its use of AI in journalism, with this story being written by a human journalist and translated from Russian using an AI model following strict editorial standards.",
  "summary": "Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) will gain round-the-clock access to cryptocurrency exchange customers’ personal data starting in March 2027.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}