Anonymous hacked Russia’s Ministry of Culture and leaked 446 GB

The Anonymous collective has hacked Russia’s Ministry of Culture and leaked 446 GB of data through the DDoSecrets platform.

Data leak service DDoSecrets has published over 700 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian government, including over 500,000 emails.

The dump includes three datasets, the largest one is related to the Ministry of Culture at 446 GB (containing 230,000 emails), which is responsible for state policy regarding art, cinematography, archives, copyright, cultural heritage, and censorship.

BREAKING: Over 700GB of Russian government data leaked. This data includes more than 200,000 emails from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.— Anonymous (@LatestAnonPress) April 11, 2022The 230,000 emails from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation / Министерство культуры Российской Федерации, were leaked through the DDoSecrets platform.

Other data laked through the DDoSecrets platform includes:

Blagoveshchensk City Administration / Благове́щенск (150 GB)230,000 emails from the Blagoveshchensk City Administration / Благове́щенск from 2019 through 2022.Tver Governor’s office (116 GB)130,000 emails from the Governor of the Tver region and his staff.
JUST IN: #Anonymous just leaked almost 600,000 new emails from Russian three datasets published by #DDoSecrets – including well over 200,000 emails from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation #OpRussia #OpKremlin #FreeUkraine #FckPutin pic.twitter.com/cjqsXBmG2l— Anonymous TV (@YourAnonTV) April 11, 2022Anonymous continues to threaten those companies and financial organizations that are still operating in Russia and are doing business with Moscow. Below is the message sent to the Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo that announced to have stopped all new financing to Russian and Belarusian counterparts since the war in Ukraine began and has stopped investments in Russian and Belarusian financial instruments. However Anonymous states that Yale University reports that the Italian bank is continuing business-as-usual in Russia and asked for an explanation about this.

Yale University reports that you are just continuing business-as-usual in Russia. Any explanation about this? pic.twitter.com/B9ivUfG3op— Anonymous TV (@YourAnonTV) April 10, 2022Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERSVote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice.To nominate, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxxrxICiMZ9QM9iiPuMQIC-IoM-NpQMOsFZnJXrBQRYJGCOw/viewform  

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