Anonymous hacker collective leaks one million Kremlin emails in massive attack on Putin

The Anonymous hacktivist collective claims to have leaked almost a million emails from within the Russian government in perhaps the biggest cyber attack on the Kremlin and Putin yet

Kremlin hacker — Anonymous are intensifying their cyber war on Putin’s government (Image: NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The hacker collective Anonymous claims to have seized around 900,000 emails from deep within the Russian government, in what is perhaps the biggest cyber attack on the Kremlin during Russia’s Ukraine offensive yet.

The leaked emails have allegedly been taken from Russia’s biggest state media network which has been repeatedly accused of spreading propaganda during the conflict.

Anonymous has made public hundreds of thousands of emails from the All- Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK), which operates five TV stations in Russia.

Emma Best, Co-founder DDoSecrets, tweeted: “#DDoSecrets has received the VGTRK (All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company) data and will release it in the near future.

“Transparency is coming to Russia, one leak at a time.”

Almost 900,000 emails from Russia’s top state broadcaster have been made public (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

One of the channels in question is said to reach almost 100% of the Russian population. The network has been repeatedly accused of spreading false information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The leak marks an intensification of Anonymous’ cyber war on Putin.

Last month, Anonymous hacked the Russian company that took over the nuclear power plant Chernobyl, defacing its website. It also hacked a Russian TV channel and broadcasted censored footage from Ukraine to millions of Russians.

Source : https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/news/breaking-anonymous-hacker-collective-leaks-26650717