Anonymous claims Yandex data breach affecting 150K users

Anonymous is back at it again, the hacking group claims to have breached into the Russian search giant Yandex.ru. network.

The Yandex data breach is suspected to have happened today, compromising Yandex’s network with 150K users data being leaked including password, mail details. This compromised data includes that of the verified user accounts as well.

Yandex data breach by Anonymous hackers

Yandex N.V. is a MNC and a search giant for Russian and Russian-language users, providing 70+ internet-related products and services, including search and information services, mobile applications, transportation, e-commerce, navigation, and online advertising.

After anonymous claims Yandex data breach, their stolen data is made publicly available on the web now and is marked as New Text Document.txt with a size of 165.6 MB and fuckers Yandex accounts.zip with 1.14 MB as samples of evidence.

However, there is no official confirmation on the incident from Yandex’s side. The Cybersecurity Times will update this article once we see an update from Yandex regarding Anonymous’s claim.

This move from Anonymous comes right after Russia demands Google to stop misinformation on the Russia’s operation in Ukraine and after blocking Meta, Twitter, Facebook and several other foreign publications.

Russian communication intercepted with Ukrainian national anthem

In a completely different update from Anonymous, Russian offices are facing challenges in communicating via the shortwave as the waves are intercepted and jammed with the Ukrainian national anthem,

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