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Anonymous International is a hacking group known for leaking
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information and personal documents of government officials. They target high-ranking members of the government, large corporations, and media, and sell the stolen data. These actions are publicized on their blog, Shaltai Boltai, (), the name by which the group is also known. Over a period of 15 months the group published information about Russian politicians on 75 separate occasions. Uncovered by Anonymous International and made public in June 2014 by '' The Insider'',
Vyacheslav Volodin Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin (, ; born 4 February 1964) is a Russian politician who currently serves as the 10th Chairman of the State Duma since 2016. He is a former aide to President Vladimir Putin. The former Secretary-General of the Unit ...
is a strong supporter of the interests of
Yevgeny Prigozhin Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin (1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian mercenary leader and oligarch. He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until launching a ...
and the
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s at the
Internet Research Agency The Internet Research Agency (IRA; ; 2013-2023), also known as ''Glavset'' (, ), and known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino () or Kremlinbots (), was a Russian company which was engaged in online propaganda and influence ...
. In October 2016, Vladimir Anikeyev (), known under the
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of "Lewis," considered the group's leader, was arrested and charged with unlawful access to computer information. In addition to Anikeyev, five more people were detained, among them one of the leaders of the FSB's Information Security Center, Sergei Mikhailov, and his deputy Dmitry Dokuchaev, as well as Ruslan Stoyanov, the former head of
Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Lab (; ) is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia, and operated by a holding company in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky, Natalya Kaspersky a ...
's Computer Incident Investigation Department. In October 2018, one of the co-founders of Shaltai Boltai, Alexander Glazastikov, was arrested in absentia in Russia.


See also

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Mikhailov case The Mikhailov Case refers to an espionage scandal surrounding the activities of the Center of Information Security (CIS) of FSB (18th Center), whose employees were implicated in high treason after participating in a number of high-profile criminal ...


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Down The Rabbit Hole With Russia's Mysterious Leakers
" Max Seddon, ''
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'', June 29, 2014 Hacker groups Hacking in the 2010s Information technology in Russia