Anonymous leaks ‘776GB of Kremlin files’ after claimed hack of Russia’s Ministry of Culture
ANONYMOUS is claiming to have leaked a trove of Russian files after allegedly hacking government departments.
The vigilante hacker group has apparently made good on a to infiltrate and disrupt the Russian war effort.
According to reports, Anonymous has breached Kremlin institutions and Russian companies in the cyber attack.
Their data dump includes over 200,000 emails from the Russian Ministry of Culture, which has oversight over censorship, archives and art.
They also hijacked emails and data from a oil and gas company called Aerogas.
News of the hack was widely broken by an Anonymous-focused account.
Anonymous published their findings on - a whistleblowing platform that many view as the new Wikileaks.
DDoSecrets publishes datasets with information considered to be worthy of public interest - in the past, they've datasets that reveal political corruption and two-faced lobbying.
The site's Latin slogan, Veritatem cognoscere ruat cælum et pereat mundus, translates to "Know the truth, though the heavens may fall and the world burn."
The newest leaks are available for download with Anonymous cited as the source.
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The leak comes at a time when neutrality in the Ukraine war is becoming unacceptable in the eye of public opinion.
Western nations are investigating reports that Russia deployed chemical weapons against Ukraine.
If confirmed, Russia's use of chemical weapons would be a violation of wartime ethics that could escalate the conflict and potentially elicit a response from NATO or a NATO country acting alone.
“There are some things that are beyond the pale,” a diplomat from the United Kingdom told .
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