OSINT of Romania

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Entry #11 OSINT Series

Open Data

• Official Romanian Government Open Data Portal - budgets, procurement, demographics, environment, health, transport, etc.

• Romania Open Data Score - ODIN Score

• INSSE (Institutul Național de Statistică) - Official statistics on population, economy, regions, and businesses.

• Dateno registry gives a snapshot of open data and geospatial data-source catalogs indexed for Romania.

• A list of Romanian NLP (Natural Language Processing) Datasets - Github

• Machine Learning Datasets

Company Registries / Business Info

• Confidas - Financial data, creditworthiness, legal cases, company connections, and shareholder graphs.

• Termene.ro - Aggregates company data, financials, and connections.

• ListaFirme.ro | Romanian Companies- Business listings by location, activity, or name. Useful for broad research.

• (Read) How to find company information in Romania

• Romanian Companies Database

• Info Clipper - Search Romanian Companies

• Hit Horizons - Database of Romanian Companies

• OpenCorporates Global Registry

• Paginiaurii.ro - Romania Yellow Pages

• RoLocal - Local Business Directory

• Infobel - This is a database of business entries for each European country, including Romania.

• Investigative Dashboard (OCCRP) - International tool aggregating leaked documents, company registries, etc.

Land & Property Records

• ANCPI – Access to cadastral and land book info. Some services require authentication via eTerra or ePayment.

• eTerra Portal - Paid access to property deeds, ownership records, and land registration data. Through eTerra, users can access: Land Book Extracts (Extras de Carte Funciară), Cadastral Information, Property History (upon request).

• Geoportal ANCPI - Interactive map with cadastral and topographic overlays.

• (Read) How to Check if Someone Owns Property in Romania

• Several popular real estate websites in Romania include Storia.ro, Imobiliare.ro, Romimo.ro, Imoradar24.ro, and Immoflux.ro

Vehicle & Registration Info

• Autodna - Vehicle History using VIN

• Carvetical - Vehicle History using VIN

• Aida - Check if a vehicle has valid RCA insurance (requires license plate number).

• Autovit - Vehicle Listings (used market)

• Olx.ro – Vehicle Ads (Often reveals seller info, rough location, photos, and sometimes plates).

People Search & Personal Data

• Portal.just.ro — Romania’s official Judiciary Courts Portal

  • Search civil and criminal case records by name or company. Useful to check legal history.

  • You can also use Google Dorking:

    • site:portal.just.ro "Nume Prenume"

    • site:portal.just.ro dosar "divorț" OR "litigiu"

• Orange Romania Breach - Search

• Paginiaurii.ro - Search by company name, phone number, CUI (tax ID), or CAEN code. Handy to find out if a phone number is linked to a business’ service line.

• (Read) Search People in Romania

  • Facebook remains the most popular platform in Romania. Search using the person's full name, then filter results by "Lives in Romania" or specific cities like Bucuresti, Cluj-Napoca, or Timisoara.

    • site:facebook.com "Nume Prenume" "Bucuresti"

    • site:facebook.com/people "Nume Prenume" Romania

• Romania People Search & Finder (Free)

• Euro Bridge - Provides information on bridge personalities (players, administrators, journalists and authors, tournament directors, organizers, etc.)

• Find people in Romania - Facebook Page

• JewishGen Romania-Moldova Database - 1.2 million historical records relating to Jewish life and genealogy in Romania, Moldova, and Bessarabia, aggregated from multiple original sources.

• Track Mobile Number Of Romania

• Family Search - Romania

• Google Dorking:

  • CVs / Resumes:

    • filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc "curriculum vitae" OR "CV" "România"

    • filetype:pdf "nume" "data nașterii" site:.ro

    • "experiență profesională" "educație" filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf site:.ro

  • Obituaries / Cemetery Records

    • intitle:"necrolog" OR "in memoriam" site:.ro

  • Academic / Student Lists

    • filetype:pdf OR filetype:xls "student" "admis" site:edu.ro

    • filetype:pdf "lista candidaților" "Universitatea" site:.ro

  • Phone Numbers & Emails

    • site:.ro "nume prenume" AND "email" OR "@gmail.com"

    • site:.ro intext:"telefon" OR "număr de telefon" "Nume Prenume"

  • Investigative Dashboard (OCCRP) - International tool aggregating leaked documents, company registries, etc.

Maps

• Romania Waterways

• A categorised list of links to over 500 sites providing freely available geographic datasets.

• Old Maps of Romania

• Map of Romania's counties and Territorial Administrative

• Romania Street View

Procurement & Tenders

• SEAP (Sistemul Electronic de Achiziții Publice) - Track public tenders, contracts awarded, participants, and values.

• Tenders Info - Find latest government Tenders, projects, contracts, and tenders notices in Romania.

• Global Tenders - Romania

• Tenders Service - Romania

WHOIS & Domain Research

• ROTLD (Romanian TLD Registry) - WHOIS information for .ro domains.

• Whois.domaintools

• View DNS Info

Corruption in Romania

• (Read) Corruption in Romania Wikipedia

• List of corruption scandals in Romania - Wikipedia

• Corruption in Romania - statistics & facts

• Corruption Risk Report - Romania

• Diagnostic Surveys of Corruption in Romania - World Bank

• Corruption Perception Index - Romania

Miscellaneous

• CIA Factbook - Romania

• Wikileaks - Romania

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