Hackers hacked into the passport IT system of Belarus

At the end of July 2021, it became known about the hacking of the Passport automated information system in Belarus, which is a tool for automating the official activities of passport and visa service units at the level of the State Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee, the Internal Affairs Directorate of Oblast Executive Committees, as well as the passport and visa service units of the territorial internal affairs bodies subordinate to them.

hacker The group, which calls itself Belarusian cyber partisans, took responsibility for hacking the national passport system. In support of this, cybercriminals posted the passport data of some officials, including Chairman Central Electoral Commission Lydia Yermoshina and KGB Chairman Ivan Tertel, in open access. The data of the former president Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev, who fled to Belarus and lives in this country by the end of July 2021, have also been released.

Hackers hacked into the passport IT system of Belarus

Also, cyber partisans claim that they got access to personal data from the leadership of the country's power structures, KGB officers, people from Alexander Lukashenko's inner circle. Activists promised that some of the classified information would be publicly publicized.

Earlier in July 2021, cyber partisans spread information that they had hacked the TRAFFIC CENTER AIS. After such a statement, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus reported problems with access to police information services.

The department explained the problems with abnormal heat. Interruptions in access to departmental services, such as the GAI database and others, began on July 8. Registration and registration and examination units of the traffic police resumed work only on July 16.

AIS "Passport" was developed by the Belarusian company "Todes" by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. By July 30, 2021, the ministry did not comment on information about the hacking of the AIS "Passport" and the publication of personal data on the network.^[1]

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