A Ukrainian hacker group has allegedly approached the wives of Russian air force pilots who orchestrated the bombing of the Mariupol theater in March last year and leaked the pilots’ personal information.
According to InformNapalm, an international civic group that monitors Russian military activities, on the 1st (local time), the Ukrainian hacker group Cyber Resistance has stolen the emails and personal information of Col. He obtained various military secrets by hacking letters and other documents for several months.
The information disclosed by Informnapalm from Cyber Resistance included extensive personal information such as Colonel Artroschenko’s birthplace and address, phone number and passport number, salary and benefits, and corona vaccination records.
In addition, there was a variety of military-related information, such as the list of pilots of the unit, performance evaluation records, various posts and memos, and calculation records.
The Cyber Resistance approached Colonel Artroshchenko’s wife, Lilia Artroshchenko, and asked that they also do a ‘patriotic photo shoot’ at the airfield.
Hackers posing as Russian officers of the 960th Attack Aviation Regiment hacked Colonel Artroshchenko’s wife’s email and contacted him, planning a photo shoot with other pilots’ wives and girlfriends to boost morale with a ‘surprise’. Persuaded me to do it.
Colonel Artroschenko’s wife Lilia accepted the request and, using her position as the colonel’s wife, persuaded the wives of 11 other Air Force pilots to pose at the airfield in her husband’s military uniform.
Lilia thought she was communicating with an officer in the same unit as her husband, not a Ukrainian hacker, and took pictures and videos and provided them on March 16.
Separately, the Cyber Resistance found in Colonel Artroshchenko’s emails that his wife, Lilia, likes to send “surprise pictures” to her husband, and released some racy pictures.
The photos provided by Lilia also include Russian military airfields and fighter jets. Through this, it was confirmed that the 960th Attack Aviation Regiment overlapped the ‘Z’ on the asterisk, unlike other units where the ‘Z’, the Russian military symbol, was drawn side by side without overlapping the asterisk on the rear wing.
Based on the information obtained through the hack, information about Colonel Atroshchenko and his men was submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to enforce an arrest warrant, according to Informnapalm.
Cyber Resistance and Informnapalm have warned that they will release additional sensitive information in the future…
Source: Donga
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