Anonymous, a decentralized hacking collective, claims to have attacked Sberbank. The attack was disclosed earlier this week by a Twitter account affiliated with the group, @YourAnonOne, which noted that the bank is the largest in the Russian Federation and Eastern Europe. The #Anonymous collective hacked Sberbank, it is the largest bank in Russia and Eastern Europe. — Anonymous (@YourAnonOne) May 17, 2022 Moscow-headquartered Sberbank, now known as Sber, is a majority state-owned banking and financial services firm with operations in a number of European countries, primarily in the post-Soviet region. Sanctions imposed by the West in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have hampered its activities. Sberbank Europe announced its exit from the European market at the end of February. According to a tweet from another Anonymous account, the hackers collected and leaked 5,030 emails, addresses, and phone numbers from the compromised database. Sberbank has failed to respond to these charges, despite controlling about a third of all bank assets in Russia. According to crypto news outlet Forklog, the article redirects to an archive with five Excel files. They include details on the bank’s free safe deposit boxes as of June 14, 2016, as well as a registry of property and partner appraisers, a list of the different types of traded futures contracts, and a blank template for a certificate of property status and current liabilities. ...
