Anonymous Plan to Release 35,000 Documents, Targeting Russia’s Central Bank

Hackers stole $31 million ($2 billion) from Russian Central Bank client accounts, but officials were able to recover $26 million ($1.66 billion) of the assets, according to the bank in a report issued, originally reported by Reuters.

On Thursday, a Twitter account linked to the hacker-activist organization Anonymous claimed Russia’s central bank had been hacked and that 35,000 files on “secret deals” will be revealed within 48 hours. 

The report does not say how Russian Central Bank officials detected the breach, but they did so in time to freeze some of the funds while they were being transferred between bank accounts to avoid being traced. 

Anonymous is a loosely organized organization of hackers from all over the world which has been active since at least 2008 when it targeted the Church of Scientology. It then shifted to ‘hacktivism,’ in which it targeted governments and corporations over key concerns. Members are known to wear Guy Fawkes masks and conceal one’s voices with voice changers or text-to-speech tools. 

The gang does not appear to have a clearly defined hierarchy or set of regulations, making it difficult to credit cyber operations effectively. Since before the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s government, army, and banks had been subjected to Russian-sponsored cyber attacks. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Trans

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