I don't think people fully appreciate just how much, after invading Ukraine, people are hacking Russia. There are multiple hacks a week and it's only increasing. For first time in internet history Russia is fair game for cyber attacks, and this is what it looks like 🧵
Distributed Denial of Secrets has been archiving these dumps and making them torrents. DDoSecrets has been around for a few years but made a big splash in 2020, during BLM protests by publishing hacked data on hundreds of US local/federal police sites theintercept.com/2020/08/17/blu…
Twitter permanently banned the @DDoSecrets account then, and also took the extraordinary step of banning links to ddosecrets dot com itself. Go ahead and try tweeting that URL, it won't work.
Anyway, DDoSecrets has 7 Russian datasets from March and another 20 from April (so far)
817gb from Roskomnadzor, agency that monitors and censors mass media (!)
79gb from Transneft, world's largest oil pipline company, state-controlled
15gb from Rosatom, the state nuclear energy agency and major exported of uranium
2.4gb from RostProekt, a construction company
110gb from MashOil, manufacturer for drilling, mining, and fracking industries
22gb from the Central Bank of Russia
5.9gb from Thoriz Corp, investment firm owned by an oligarch billionaire
52gb from Marathon Group, another investment first owned by another oligarch
15gb from the Russian Orthodox Church's charitable wing
65gb from Central Legal Services, mostly emails
483gb from Mosekspertiza, state-owned firm
786gb from VGTRK, state-owned broadcaster that runs dozens of TV/radio stations (!)
244gb from Petrofort
145gb from Aerogas, oil and gas industry
35gb from Forest, logging firm
116gb from Tver Governor's office, appointed by Putin
150gb from the city of Blagoveshchensk
Whew... there's still a lot more. It's going to take months and years to look through all of this data. It's hard to picture how this will affect Russia going forward. It's massive.
446gb from the Ministry of Culture (!)
221gb from the education department of Strezhevoy
440gb from Technotec, oil and gas industry
726gb from Gazprom, oil and gas manufacturer
400gb from Continent Express, travel agency
222gb from Gazregion, construction company that does gas pipelines (hacked by 3 different hacktivists at the same time lol)
107gb from Neocom Geoservice, oil, gas, and drilling engineering
1.2gb from Synesis Surveillance System
9.5gb from General Dept of Troops and Civil Construction (works with ministry of defense)
160gb from Tendertech, financial and banking processing firm
Those last four datasets: those were from TODAY. I know there are several more in the DDoSecrets backlog as well. It's insane.
This isn't all that DDoSecrets does at all. It's just been particularly slammed by hacktivism against Russia since the illegal invasion of Ukraine. Here's a great overview from @illegaldaydream, a member of the collective backdrifting.net/post/057_what_…
After January 6, DDoSecrets published 5gb of hacked data from the Oath Keeper militia and shared it privately with journalists, which triggered dozens of investigations around the country npr.org/2021/11/05/105…
During the far right anti-vax Canadian "Freedom Convoy", a hacktivist hacked the far right fundraising site GiveSendGo and leaked all their data to DDoSecrets, which shared with journalists. This also triggered dozens of news articles theintercept.com/2022/02/17/fre…
Even since Russia's war against Ukraine started, DDoSecrets published 4TB of data from "Mining Secrets", a major collaboration of 65 journalists and 20 newsrooms forbiddenstories.org/case/mining-se…
Anyway, I've been working on downloading as much of the hacked Russian data as I can and making it searchable for Russian-speaking journalists. If you have the time and tech skills, you should too! The data is available to everyone
And if you want to support DDoSecrets, go to ddosecrets dot com and click "Donate" on the left.
The collective works on a shoestring budget, doesn't get paid, and spends very little time fundraising because they're too busy with everyone hacking Russia
TODAY DDoSecrets released two new hacked Russian datasets:
130gb from Worldwide Invest, investment firm
432gb from Sawatzky, property management firm with lots of big clients
The section on the DDoSecrets Wikipedia page for its 2022 releases is woefully out of date, if anyone wants to improve it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribut…
Another release today:
211gb from Accent Capital, a commercial real-estate investment firm
I wrote an article about how hacktivists are bombarding Russia with an Unprecedented onslaught of cyberattacks interc.pt/3K8sbXx
Another day, another few hundred gigs of hacked emails from a Russian company.
Today DDoSecrets published 432gb of data from Enerpred, the largest producer of hydraulic tools in Russia that works in energy, petrochemical, coal, gas and construction
1.1 terabytes (!) of email from ALET / АЛЕТ, a customs broker for companies in the fuel and energy industries, handling exports and customs declarations for coal, crude oil, liquefied gases and petroleum products
More hacks in the last few days:
554gb of data from Petersburg Social Commercial Bank
1.7tb (terabytes!) from Elektrocentromontazh, Russia's primary electricity utility
The first hacked Russian dataset in May: 20gb of data from LLC Capital, a Russian accounting firm
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