Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Ukraine

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2022: Data breach of 1,500 employees

At the end of September 2022, it became known about the leakage of personal data of employees of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. The corresponding base was posted by the RaHDIt cyber group, which is called Russian in the media.

Hackers have released the data of more than 1,500 employees of the SVR of Ukraine. The relevance of the published information was confirmed to RIA Novosti by a law enforcement source. It follows from the publication that intelligence officials allegedly worked under the cover of embassies in more than 20 countries.

Hackers released data from 1,500 Ukrainian intelligence officers

Among these countries are Azerbaijan Argentina Hungary Germany Greece Iraq,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. Italy Poland USA Tajikistan France REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA Information about scouts working in missions and more than UN 40 European Union NATO locations of SVR units of Ukraine were also made publicly available.

As the hackers explained, they gained access to the database of employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, compared them and found coincidences.

According to the RIA Novosti agency, the RaHDIt group has been conducting the Nemesis information resource since the beginning of the Russian military special operation in Ukraine. On it and posted data on the employees of the SBU. It is assumed that RaHDIt participants also had a hand in hacking the YouTube account of the Security Service of Ukraine, as well as computer systems of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and related persons. At the beginning of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the group simultaneously hacked all 755 government Ukrainian sites, RIA Novosti points out.

According to Dmitry Galov, an expert on cybersecurity at Kaspersky Lab, RaHDIt "is more a group of like-minded people, not a hacker group in a classic view."^[1]

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