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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian hacker activistic group claims to person infiltrated computers astatine nan country's largest fertilizer works to unit nan authorities to merchandise governmental prisoners.
The state-run Grodno Azot works has made nary remark connected nan declare by nan Belarusian Cyber-Partisans group to person done harm including destroying backup systems and encrypted soul mail, archive travel and hundreds of PCs. However, nan company's website has been unavailable since Wednesday, nan time nan group claimed nan attack.
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Group coordinator Yuliana Shametavets told The Associated Press from New York connected Friday that because nan works useful pinch vulnerable substances including ammonia nan onslaught was designed to impact only documentation.
The group posted photos connected societal media that it it claimed showed screens of compromised works computers.
A Belarusian hacker activistic group claims to person infiltrated computers astatine nan country’s largest fertilizer works to unit nan authorities to merchandise governmental prisoners. (Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Grodno Azot, pinch astir 7,500 employees, is simply a cardinal shaper successful nan country, whose system relies heavy connected chemic industries.
A harsh crackdown connected nan guidance successful Belarus began aft protests swept nan state successful August 2020 successful nan aftermath of statesmanlike elections whose disputed results gave authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko a sixth word successful office.
Human authorities activists opportunity immoderate 35,000 group were arrested successful nan people of nan crackdown and that location are astir 1,400 governmental prisoners down bars today. They see galore of nan country's astir salient guidance figures and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, laminitis of nan Viasna quality authorities group.
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The 2020 protests were nan largest and astir sustained show of dissent successful Belarus since Lukashenko came to powerfulness successful 1994. Workers struck successful protestation astatine respective awesome plants, including Grodno Azot.
Cyber-Partisans said its claimed hack was reward for "bullying, pressuring & conducting governmental repression against nan company’s employees."
