Hacktivist Group ‘Anonymous’ Claims 10TB of Kremlin, Russian Business Data Leak
The hacktivist group Anonymous claimed to have leaked 10 terabytes (TB) of Kremlin linked data in solidarity with Ukraine on Tuesday, April 15. Anonymous TV on its X channel Tuesday announced the leak by the “Anonymous collective” and said it contained “information on all businesses operating in Russia, all Kremlin assets in the West, pro-Russian officials, and more,” resharing the leaked file titled “Leaked Data of corrupt officials” from Anonymous France, another X channel.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Since the hacktivist group has a decentralized structure, it is unclear to what extent the two channels are affiliated with the movement. A screenshot of the file directory shared by Anonymous TV contained a list of folders with names starting with “Leaked Data of” followed by various entities ranging from Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, US President Donald Trump to US pizza chain Domino’s Pizza. It also contained names of companies operating in Russia, such as Ahmad Tea and Dilmah Tea. File directory of the allegedly leaked data. Photo by Anonymous TV / X However, other cyber-activists have questioned the nature and extent of the leaked information. Cyber-activist Emma Best noted in a BlueSky update that the “data looks like a scrape of existing releases.”
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Tech reporter Mikael Thalen, in another article, suggested that the majority of the data might have come from an X user called @CyberUnknown45 who has been “posting about the cache as far back as December 2023.” Thalen said the data “largely appears to be already public information scraped from websites as well as hacks and leaks from others,” also referencing Best in his article. Cybernews called the files “a large amount of random data” and said, “the overall consensus seems to be that the leaked info is simply not that exciting.” However, citing Reddit user civilservant2011 who downloaded and posted the file, Cybernews suggested that the files might still be of use to those in the know, such as Ukraine’s armed forces. “Mostly the information in the archive is specific to individual companies in Russia with folders for them and random PDFs for each company. This archive may be useful to the UKR armed forces since there are hundreds of PDF on defense companies in Russia,” civilservant2011 said in his Reddit update. In March 2024, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) claimed a successful hack into Russia’s Ministry of Defense’s database. It said it obtained data that helped the agency establish the identity and structure of the Russian Armed Forces.
