Rambler (portal)

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History

Rambler has been online since 1996. In 2005 a Rambler Media group went public, and was bought by Prof-Media in 2006.

On July 18, 2008 it was announced that Google was to acquire Begun, component of Rambler Media as alive as one of the biggest Russian contextual advertising services for $140 million, but the deal was blocked by Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service.

The leading competitors of Rambler in the Russian market are Yandex & Mail.ru. As of July 2013, Rambler ranked 11th in popularity among Russian sites.

In September 2016 it was submission that the site was breached in February 2012. LeakedSource received a dump of the user database at the time that referenced usernames, passwords, and ICQ instant messaging accounts for over 98 million users. It was revealed that the Rambler.ru database stored user passwords in plaintext — meaning that whoever breached the database instantly had access to the e-mail accounts of any of its users.

In 2020, the state-owned agency Sberbank became the sole owner of Rambler Media Group.