A group of hackers infiltrates the Russian prison system and steals the inmate database in order to trace Mr. Navalny's death in prison.
Hours after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in February 2024 in a prison where he was being held, a group of hackers sympathetic to the Russian opposition hacked into the prison and imprisoned him. It is reported that the computer's database was stolen.
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Alexei Navalny criticized the government of President Vladimir Putin and waged a large-scale anti-establishment movement. In 2014, he formed the Progressive Party and participated in politics, but in 2021 he was arrested and imprisoned. Then, in February 2024, the prison where Mr. Navalny was imprisoned announced that Mr. Navalny had died.
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According to the American news media CNN, several hours after Navalny's death was announced, a photo of Navalny and his wife Yulia at a political rally was suddenly posted on the website of a prison contractor. , the message 'Long live Alexei Navalny!' was displayed. The hack is believed to have used access to computer networks associated with Russia's prison system.
The group of hackers who carried out this hack warned people not to delete the photo and message. When the website administrator refused, one website server was destroyed by cracking.
The hacker group also claims to have stolen inmate data from a prison in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the Arctic Circle, where Mr. Navalny was imprisoned at the time of his death. When CNN actually verified this stolen database, although there were some duplicates, it was confirmed that the information matched the information of people who are officially recorded as being imprisoned in prison.
A hacker who participated in the hack told CNN that the purpose of stealing the inmate database was not only to exact revenge on Mr. Navalny, but also to 'contact inmates in prison. The intention was that we might be able to find out what happened to Mr. Navalny.'
The hacker also reported that he had hacked the prison's online shop where families can purchase food for inmates, changing the price of items such as noodles and canned meat to 1 ruble (about 1.6 yen). According to the hackers, it took several hours for online store administrators to notice the hack, and three days for the hackers to force the discount campaign to end. Immediately after being hacked, JSC Kaluzhskoe, a Russian state-owned company that operates an online store, issued a statement on the Russian social networking site VK saying, ``A technical failure occurred that caused the prices of food and daily necessities to be incorrectly reflected.'' doing.
In recent years, politically motivated hacking activities called `` hacktivism '' have become rampant in Russia. According to CNN, the hacker group that stole the database and altered store information is made up of a variety of nationalities, including Russian exiles and Ukrainians, and appears to be taking an anti-Russian regime stance. is.
Tom Hagel, a researcher at the cybersecurity company SentinelOne, said, ``In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, hacktivism has become rampant on an unprecedented scale. Hacktivism is an attempt by diverse groups to express their views. 'It is attracting attention as a powerful tool for targeting perceived adversaries and attempting to influence the outcome of war.'
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