After Going Silent for a Month Anon Bulgaria Re-emerges with a Fresh Hack of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Austria
In July of 2017, Anon Bulgaria released a cache of hacked data detailing the illegal shipment of arms from Europe to the Middle East. The substantial leak provided by the Twitter handle @Anon_bg implicated US contractors, the government of Azerbaijan, weapons from Eastern European countries and a commercial civilian airline.
Silkway Helps Terrorists
- Azerbaijani Silkway Airlines
- The Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan
- US military contractors: Purple Shovel, Orbital ATK, and Chemring Groups
- Suppliers: Bulgarian, Serbian, and Belarusian arms manufacturers and stockpiles
- Destination countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Africa, and many more
- Shipments of: White Phosphorus, Depleted Uranium, Rocket Propelled Grenades, Konkurs Missiles, ‘Non-standard’ weapons and ammunition.
- Shipments concealed using Diplomatic Immunity
- Arming Terrorists
For a complete overview please visit @v4vapid archive at Steemshelves.com
The documents released by Anon Bulgaria originated from the Azerbaijani embassy in Bulgaria and formed the basis of a groundbreaking report by, now former, Trud reporter Dilyana Gaytandzheiva who was dismissed from her position for reporting on the operation.
Fresh Embassy Hack
Now, Anon Bulgaria has returned with several tweets indicating that even more potentially damaging data has been hacked from the Azerbaijani embassy, this time in from Austria.
Unlike the previous data dumps from July, this leak is not free - will cost 1BTC. (Approximately $4800 USD at the time of posting).
The size of the data dump is comparable to the late-July leak:
From Embassy in Bulgaria (July, 2017)
- 65 Gb
- 8 900 Files
From Embassy in Austria (October, 2017)
- 53 Gb
- 34 279 files
- 27, 1000 emails in .pst
- 465 contracts
The original data dump is available at truthleaks.org.
[Take necessary precautions if you're considering downloading any files - eg. sandbox]
The inclusion of 465 contracts is quite interesting. One can only speculate as to what these emails and contracts contain, but judging from the documentation in the previous leak, I would imagine they likely contain sensitive information on the illicit weapons trade.
The price tag of 1 BTC marks a change in tactics from Anon Bulgaria. Whether the contents of this data set are worth 5K is also unverifiable. Yet, in our day and age, information is power and it probably is worth 5k or more to affected parties.
Certainly, the government / foreign ministry of Azerbaijan may want to think about coughing up 5k to suppress further revelations of their involvement in illegal arms trading using diplomatic immunity as cover.
UPDATE - The October 9th Tweets have now been removed from Anon Bulgaria's Twitter feed -
