Just hours ago news came from Russia that it’s FSB, the Russians answer to the FBI, has been hacked. The hackers managed a heist of a massive 7.5 terabytes of data from a Russian contractor. Forbes reports: “Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB—Russia’s Federal Security Service. The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor, exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social media, and help the state split its internet off from the rest of the world. The data was passed to mainstream media outlets for publishing.”

This is significant because Russia’s FSB is not just an intelligence agency. It also does electronic surveillance overseas, and is massively responsible for intelligence-gathering oversight. Last week, it was reported that 0v1ru$ allegedly breached a company called SyTech, which is a major Russian contractor working on several live and exploratory internet projects. 0v1ru$ bragged about the breach on SyTech’s homepage.

The hackers then passed their information on to DigitalRevolution, a larger hacking group. The hacking group posted the above image, taunting the FSB, and sharing said information with various media outlets and twitter.

The hacking group aimed a jab at the FSB, saying it should name one of it’s projects “Project Colander”. No one knows how close the two hacking groups are, but we do know the FSB is intimately familiar with DigitalRevolution. The consequences of their breach is as of yet unknown, but could be massive. From Forbes:

“The BBC claims that SyTech’s projects were mostly contracted with Military Unit 71330, part of FSB’s 16th Directorate which handles signals intelligence, the same group accused of emailing spyware to Ukranian intelligence officers in 2015.” “Contractors remain the weak link in the chain for intelligence agencies worldwide—to emphasize the point, just last week, a former NSA contractor was jailed in the U.S. for stealing secrets over two decades. And the fallout from Edward Snowden continues to this day.”

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