KGB data stolen during Cyberpartisans strike on Belarus
On Friday, a Belarusian group known as Cyberpartisans announced that they had infiltrated the local KGB website, claiming to have stolen data on over 8,600 employees. The activists shared a list of the website's KGB administrators online.
28 April 2024 13:06
"The KGB is orchestrating the most extensive political repression in the nation's history and must be accountable. Our actions aim to protect Belarusians, not to harm them as the repressive Belarusian secret services do," the activist stated.
"Our goal is to demonstrate that hiding information is futile in the digital realm. The reality of political repression will surface, and those responsible will face the consequences," Shametaviec stated, vowing to continue the attacks.
Not the hackers' first campaign in Belarus
Radio Svaboda describes the group as a "decentralized community" of hackers. The group emerged in September 2020, initiating its operations in response to the crackdown on political protest participants. Since then, it has targeted the websites of Belarusian state institutions and law enforcement services.