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Hackers stole Russian prisoner database to avenge death of Navalny
Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge.
On February 19, the day after the hackers defaced the website and replaced it with Navalny’s photo, JSC Kaluzhskoe posted on Russian social media platform VK that it had experienced a “technical failure” that led to the “prices for food and basic necessities” being “reflected incorrectly.” Navalny, a charismatic political leader who railed against Russian government corruption, died in mysterious circumstances on February 16 at a prison in Yamalo-Nenets region, 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow. Pro-Ukraine hackers of various stripes have joined the fray, claiming responsibility for attacks on a Russian internet provider, for example, and websites that were broadcasting a high-profile Putin speech last year.
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