Anonymous, a hacker group, has published large amounts of data that they claim to have stolen from the Bank of Russia. The release comes after the collective announced it had hacked Russia’s central bank earlier this week, a claim that was denied by the monetary authority in Moscow.
Anonymous publishes leaked files from the Bank of Russia
An Anonymous-affiliated group, known as @Thblckrbbtworld on Twitter (The Black Rabbit World), announced that it had leaked 28GB of information from the Central Bank of Russia. A second Twitter account, @YourAnonTV confirmed that the hacker group was involved.
JUST IN: A leak from the Central Bank of Russian Federation (28GB) was published by #Anonymous hackers (@Thblckrbbtworld).#Ukraine #OpRussia
🔻 https://t.co/msXQ24qDZ2— Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 (@YourAnonTV) March 25, 2022
Anonymous claimed that it had hack the CBR on Thursday and promised to make available more than 35,000 files in the following 48 hours. According to the statement, they contain some of the regulator’s “secret agreements” among other documents. The Bank of Russia denied the claims, insisting that no information system of theirs had been compromised.
Anonymous’ latest action comes just days after declaring a cyberwar against the Russian Federation for its invasion of Ukraine. The group threatened to disrupt Russia’s internet, targeted the websites of the Kremlin, the State Duma, and the Defense Ministry as well as state-run television channels such as Russia Today (RT) and some streaming platforms.
The CBR’s documents have been distributed to various online points, the hacking group noted, adding it will share them through different links if the ones it has provided are censored. Forklog quotes a BBC Russian Service post as saying that the files contain hundreds of audit reports, and details about bank owners.
Russia and Ukraine clashed online in cyberspace as well as the ongoing military conflict. A few websites from Ukraine were attacked in the cyberspace by Russian-supporting hackers shortly before Russian troops entered Ukraine’s border in February. According to some reports, the Kyiv government has hired experts in cyberforce for both offensive and defensive operations.
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