RaHDIt Hacker Group Leaks Personal Information of Russian Citizens Working With Ukrainian Intelligence: Report

The RaHDIt Russian hacker group has handed over info on Russian residents who’ve been collaborating with Ukrainian navy intelligence to competent authorities, a RaHDIt member advised Sputnik on situation of anonymity. Earlier this month, RaHDit hackers leaked info on hundreds of officers of Ukraine’s Fundamental Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Protection (GUR, or HUR). The hackers stated that the revealed information accommodates details about the family of the stated officers and folks dwelling along with them, in addition to people who’ve been receiving funds from GUR financial institution accounts.

“We handed over the recognized contacts of our [Russian] residents with staff from that listing of Ukrainian navy intelligence officers… The listing is sort of intensive,” a RaHDIt member advised Sputnik.

In keeping with information leaked by RaHDIt, amongst Ukrainian GUR officers, there are drug addicts and former criminals convicted of theft, unlawful trafficking of weapons and medicines, infliction of grave bodily accidents, and rape. The disclosed spies embrace representatives of diplomatic missions in Russia, India, Austria, Vietnam, South Africa, Italy, Turkey and Iran. Knowledge on navy intelligence curators in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia, in addition to instructors in sabotage and representatives of particular forces for conducting undercover and energy intelligence, has additionally been leaked.

A supply in one of many Russia particular providers has confirmed to Sputnik the authenticity of the info leaked by RaHDit hackers. The group stated that it had handed over the info to legislation enforcement our bodies.

Earlier this month, a hacker claiming to have stolen private information from lots of of hundreds of thousands of Chinese language residents started promoting the data on-line.

A pattern of 750,000 entries posted on-line by the hacker confirmed residents’ names, cell phone numbers, nationwide ID numbers, addresses, birthdays, and police studies that they had filed.

On the time, AFP and cybersecurity specialists had verified among the citizen information within the pattern as genuine, however the scope of your complete database is tough to find out.

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Marketed on a discussion board late final month however solely picked up by cybersecurity specialists this week, the 23TB database — which the hacker claims accommodates the data of a billion Chinese language residents — is being bought for 10 Bitcoins.

Rising public consciousness of information privateness has led to stronger information safety legal guidelines focusing on people and personal companies lately, though there may be little residents can do to cease the state from gathering their information.