Anonymous Allegedly Hacks Sberbank, Russia’s Largest Bank – Bitcoin News

Anonymous, a hacktivist group from Russia, has apparently hacked the systems of Sberbank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. Social media posts by the hackers revealed that they had published thousands upon thousands of addresses and phone numbers.

Anonymous hackers are said to be able to access the Sberbank database

Anonymous, a decentralized hacker group claims that they have compromised Sberbank. The attack was announced by @YourAnonOne on Twitter, a group associated with Anonymous. It noted that the bank is one of the most important in Russia and Eastern Europe.

It #AnonymousSberbank was the biggest bank in Russia and Eastern Europe, which has been collectively hacked.

— Anonymous (@YourAnonOne) May 17, 2022

Sberbank (currently called Sber) is a Russian majority state-owned financial and banking services company. The bank’s headquarters are in Moscow. Western sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have affected its operations. Sberbank Europe announced that it would be leaving Europe at the end February

tweetAnonymous linked another account said that hackers had stolen 5,030 email addresses and phone numbers from the compromised data base. These claims are being made by Sberbank which is alleged to account for about a third all Russian bank assets.

According to crypto news outlet Forklog, the post will redirect to five Excel files. They contain information about the bank’s free safe deposit boxes as of June 14, 2016, a register of property and partner appraisers, a list of the types of traded futures contracts, and a blank template of a certificate of property status and current obligations.

Shortly after the Russian armed forces crossed the Ukrainian border in late February, Anonymous declared a cyberwar on Russia, vowing to disrupt the country’s internet. The Kremlin’s website, State Duma and Ministry of Defense have been attacked, as has Russian television stations. Millions of leaked emails have also been released.

In March, the hacktivist collective said it has published 28GB of documents belonging to the Central Bank of Russia, including some of the monetary authority’s “secret agreements.” In early May, the Anonymous-affiliated hacking group Network Battalion 65 (NB65) announced it hit the popular Russian payment processor Qiwi.

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Lubomir Tassav

Lubomir Tassev is a journalist from tech-savvy Eastern Europe who likes Hitchens’s quote: “Being a writer is what I am, rather than what I do.” Besides crypto, blockchain and fintech, international politics and economics are two other sources of inspiration.