Hacktivists Shut Down Top State-Owned Belarusian News Agency
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 8:48 pm
Over the New Year's holiday weekend, Belarusian hacktivists shut down the country's leading state-owned media outlet, claiming they had wiped the main website servers and backups of BelTA. The group said its actions had been retaliation against President Alexander Lukashenko's propaganda campaign.
The hacktivist group, which calls itself the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans, said in a Telegram post that it had hacked the internal network and wiped the backup and main website servers - including all accounting, workstations and archives - of the state-owned national news group called the Belarusian Telegraph Agency.
BelTA is the largest news organization of the country. It was created by the authoritarian regime almost a decade ago and includes content in Belarusian, Russian, English, German, Spanish, Polish and Chinese languages. All of the agency's websites and domains still appear to be offline at the time of writing this article.
[...]
Hacktivists Shut Down Top State-Owned Belarusian News Agency
The hacktivist group, which calls itself the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans, said in a Telegram post that it had hacked the internal network and wiped the backup and main website servers - including all accounting, workstations and archives - of the state-owned national news group called the Belarusian Telegraph Agency.
BelTA is the largest news organization of the country. It was created by the authoritarian regime almost a decade ago and includes content in Belarusian, Russian, English, German, Spanish, Polish and Chinese languages. All of the agency's websites and domains still appear to be offline at the time of writing this article.
[...]
Hacktivists Shut Down Top State-Owned Belarusian News Agency