“All personal data of users of the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation, and possibly not only, will be made public,” follows from the message on the department’s page.
The hackers demanded that the site administrators transfer 0.5 bitcoin to their account in order to avoid a leak.
In February, a group of hackers Anonymous hacked the websites of the TASS agency, as well as the Kommersant, Izvestia and Forbes publications.
In Russia, hackers carried out 130 cyberattacks on Russian banks in 2020, more than twice as many as in 2019.