Russia is losing the fight against hackers.
Dozens of Russian companies and government agencies have been hacked as punishment for Vladimir Putin’s military aggression against Ukraine.
Russia is known for its army of hackers, but since the beginning of the aggression, dozens of organizations – including government agencies, oil and gas companies and financial institutions – have been hacked, with Terrabytes leaking stolen data online.
The “Distributed Denial of Secrets” organization, best known for publishing 270GB of law enforcement data in the United States in 2020 (during racial justice protests after the assassination of George Floyd), has become the home of facto ”of data hacked by Russia.
The data is submitted to “DDoSecrets” mainly by anonymous hackers and then made available to the public on the collective’s website and distributed using BitTorrent.
“The influx of Russian data has meant a lot of sleepless nights and is really overwhelming. In less than two months since the invasion, we have published over 6 million Russian documents,” said Emma Best, co-founder of “DDoSecret”, through a coded messaging app.
After receiving a set of data, “DDoSecrets” organizes and compiles the data, then starts distributing the data using BitTorrent for public consumption and helps journalists in a wide range of newsrooms access and report on it.
“DDoSecrets” has published about 30 sets of data hacked by Russia since the beginning of the occupation of Ukraine in late February. The vast majority of sources who provided the Russian hacked data appear to be anonymous individuals, many of whom self-identify as part of the Anonymous movement.
Some sources provide email addresses or other contact information as part of the discarded data and some, such as “Network Battalion 65” are present on social media.
