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Uzbekistan’s Interior Ministry has launched a formal investigation into reports that citizens’ personal identification numbers, passport details, home addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registration records and driving licences have appeared in Telegram bots, following a wave of social-media reports that began circulating on 28–29 October.
The State Security Service’s Cybersecurity Center, the Interior Ministry and AUTODOC — the company that developed and maintains the traffic-safety platform SAFE Service, formerly known as Safe Road — are jointly examining the claims. Investigators are working to establish where the data originated, how it was obtained and distributed, and whether any information systems were compromised. Authorities have neither confirmed nor ruled out a breach; its scale and precise source remain unknown.
What Users Say They Found
Citizens who searched for their own records in the circulating databases reported finding far more than publicly available information. Shukhrat Kurbanov, who runs the Kurbanoff.net Telegram channel, said he had checked his own entry and discovered his PINFL, residential addresses, details of vehicles linked to his account including registration numbers, his driving licence and vehicle registration certificates. He said he had initially expected to find only basic data such as email addresses, but the records were considerably more detailed. Screenshots he published showed saferoad.uz listed among the sources cited in the database.
Some users additionally claimed the data included information about bank cards linked to mobile applications and the devices used to log into accounts, though those claims have not been independently verified by authorities.
SAFE Service Under Scrutiny
The investigation specifically covers SAFE Service, the Interior Ministry’s Traffic Safety Service platform operated under the AUTODOC contract. The inclusion of saferoad.uz as a listed source in the circulating data has drawn particular attention to that system, though investigators have not confirmed it as the origin of the leak. AUTODOC is participating in the joint technical examination alongside the ministry and the Cybersecurity Center.
The breadth of data categories alleged — combining government identification numbers, address records and vehicle registrations in a single searchable format — points to a potential aggregation of records from multiple state databases rather than a single system, though that determination has not been made official. The investigation is ongoing.