Hackers steal database of Russian convicts to avenge Navalny’s death – media

This was reported by CNN, Ukrinform reports.

According to hackers, they got hd of the agency’s database, which contains information on approximately 800,000 Russian prisoners, their families and contacts, including data on prisoners held in the cony where Navalny died on February 16.

Hackers posted a photo of the pitician alongside his wife Yulia at a pitical rally on the penitentiary service’s website.

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The hackers, who claim to be of various ethnic backgrounds, including Russian expatriates and Ukrainians, are sharing the data “in the he that somebody can contact them and help understand what happened to Navalny,” a hacker claiming to be invved in the breach td CNN.

An analysis by CNN found several duplicate entries in the database, but it still contains information on hundreds of thousands of pele. CNN was able to match several names seen in the snapshots shared by hackers with pele currently in a Russian prison as per public records.

The group also gained access to the prison's online store, where families of convicts can purchase food for them, and changed the prices of some goods to just one ruble. This is evidenced by screenshots and videos published by hackers.

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The group also posted Navalny's photo on the store's website. They sent a warning to the administrators of the prison's online store not to remove the image and went on to destroy one of the servers when the admins failed to heed to the warning.

The hackers “clearly had full blown access to get it all,” says Tom Hegel, who is principal threat researcher at U.S. cybersecurity company SentinelOne. “The amount of images captured and data provided is quite thorough.”

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As Ukrinform reported earlier, on February 16, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service said Russian position figure Aleksey Navalny died in the Arctic-based Penal Cony No. 3.

He was buried in Moscow early March.

The Council of the EU adted a decision to introduce restrictive measures against 33 individuals and two institutions in the Russian Federation, invved in Navalny’s death in a high-security prison.