14 DAY TRIAL // Hackers of the Anonymous movement claim to have breached the systems of Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (mfa.gov.ua). As a result of the breach, a large number of documents have been leaked.
According to the hacktivists, they’ve breached the ministry’s systems by hacking a Ukrainian telecoms company. We haven’t been able to find any references to the company mentioned by Anonymous, namely “EuroTraceTelcom.”
The hackers say the first part of a massive leak is dedicated to the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Alexander Mishchenko.
“We started our release from Ukraine Embassy to Azerbajan because we are very much concerned about state of affairs in UKR AZERI relations in terms of oil and gas trade and we know that much of it has to do with Former Prime Minister of Ukraine – Tymoshenko,” the hacktivists wrote on cyberguerrilla.org next to links to the leaked data.
They added, “Azeri oil groups have lotsa funky stuff related to Tymoshenko deals back in a day and Ukraine Embassy keeps lot of it in secret so we want them to start shake a little by making this public.”
“Lotsa stuff in there related to Ukraine Naftogaz CEO Bakulin and his FSB affairs, Ukraine Ministers and Parliament, UAE and Azerbaijan oil groups, military cargo traffic and much more fun.”
A preview of the leaked data published on imgur.com contains various documents, a copy of a US citizen’s passport, and a couple of pictures.
The government of Ukraine is not the first government targeted by these Anonymous hackers. Over the past couple of weeks, they’ve also breached the systems of Greece’s Foreign Ministry and the ones of Poland’s Ministry of Economy.
The Greek ministry has confirmed that its email systems have been hacked into. Poland's ministry is said to have beefed up its security measures to prevent future attacks.