The paper examines the impact of widespread cybercrime, among which a special type is crimes that infringe on personal information security. These types of cybercrimes carry a number of risks and threats that violate personal rights and freedom, destabilize the situation in the country, cause reputational damage, affect the course of elections, etc. The paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the problems associated with ensuring personal information security. In the course of the research, methods of cognition, analysis, synthesis, logic, comparative legal analysis, observation, generalization, system analysis and forecasting were widely used.