According to a tweet on Monday, the hacktivist collective Anonymous claims to have 700 gigabytes of data from the Russian government.
Emma Best, a founder of the site DDoSecrets, explained in a thread that there are 600,000 emails and that 446 gigs came from the Ministry of Culture. This department is in charge of state policy in the fields of art, cinematography, archives, copyright, cultural heritage, and censorship.
The information uncovered from that department included 230,000 emails as well as other data.
A further 130,000 emails were sent by President Vladimir Putin’s appointed governor of the Tver region. The emails span the years 2016 to 2022.
Another 230,000 emails came from the city administration office in Blagoveshchensk, a border city with China.
There were also 37,500 emails from Russian logging and wood manufacturing firms and companies. Aerogas, an oil and gas engineering firm, sent another 100,000 emails. The company is a collaboration between Russia’s largest oil producer, Rosneft, and the country’s largest natural gas producer, Novatek.
According to their website, they are a supplier of “rare and specialty gases.” Another data set came from Petrovsky Fort, the owner of one of the largest office complexes in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city.
“The leak is just the latest instalment in a cascade of’smash and grab’ cyberattacks carried out against Russia by hackers and cyber activists in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine on the night of February 24,” CyberNews reported. “Recently, hackers stole nearly 800 GB of data from the All-Russian State and Radio Company (VGTRK), the Kremlin’s propaganda arm.”
