Once again, Anonymous has announced it has hacked into government websites in another attack against Putin and his invasion of Ukraine.
This time, the group hacked into the website of the company that was believed to be running the Ukrainian nuclear power plant seized by Russia, leaving a short but clear message for employees.
#Anonymous hacks into Russian firm nuclear plant.
*Anonymous defaces Rosatom website, starts to leak gigabytes of data* (link to data in article: we can’t post the link because Twitter is mean to us sometimes).https://t.co/2uxp0yafen— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) March 15, 2022
Ukraine officials informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Russia was planning to take full control of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant under the management of state nuclear energy firm Rosatom.
The Zaporizhzhya site, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, was seized by Russian forces on March 4 where a fire broke out and was extinguished, leading to the international concern of a potential nuclear accident.
Anonymous also claimed it had taken out Russia’s national security agency, writing on Twitter: “Russian sites under attack [Tango Down],” the latter statement relating to military slang meaning an enemy has been defeated in combat.
Among the sites, Anonymous claimed to have taken down are Moscow.ru, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation.
FSB is the principal security agency within the country and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union’s KGB.
This comes after the group launched a cyber offensive against Putin, which included a chilling warning telling him his ‘secrets may no longer be safe’.
More hacking from Anonymous as reported by DailyMail:
Last week, Anonymous claimed to have hacked into Russia’s media censorship agency and released 340,000 files from Roskomnadzor federal agency, stealing classified documents which they then passed on to transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), who published them online.
The trove of 820 gigabytes of emails and attachments, some of which are dated as late as March 5, shows how the Kremlin is censoring anything referring to their brutal invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow is instead calling a ‘special military operation’.
The Anonymous hacker said they ‘urgently felt the Russian people should have access to information about their government’, DDoSecrets said.
The files relate to the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, one of the largest in the federation with a population of four million.
Source: DailyMail
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