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Hackers have leaked emails of Navalny supporters

Published by unknown hackers who hacked the database of the e-mail addresses of hundreds of thousands of supporters Alexei Navalny, who had said they would take part in protests against the Kremlin critic.

The news was made known by the director of the Anti-Corruption Fund, founded by Russian politician and which has been registered by the Authorities in the register of “foreign agents”.

Navalny, 44, was sentenced last month to two and a half years in prison, for a case for which he had been given a suspended sentence, which he had described as fabricated. He was arrested in January when he returned from Germany, where he was being treated after being poisoned by a neurotoxic agent, doctors said.

His arrest and imprisonment prompted his supporters to stage three protests during the winter despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Last month, his associates launched the website “Freedom in Navalny”, with the aim of collecting signatures for those who wish to participate in a rally in support of the Russian politician.

His associates had announced that they would announce the date of the rally, as soon as they posted more than 500,000 signatures on the website. This morning, April 16, 483,000 signatures were registered.

The director of the Anti-Corruption Fund, Ivan Zdanov, said the e-mail addresses of those who said they would take part in the protests had been posted on the internet, adding that the database contained nothing more than e-mail addresses, without names or other features. to identify users.

“It simply came to our notice then hackers “is to send you an ugly email that will probably end up in your spam folder,” Zdanov said, according to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency.

The hackers in their message claim that 70% of those registered on the website “Freedom in Navalny!”, Are bots (internet robots). In addition, they threaten to reveal the details of those who sent their email address to the website.

“At the moment we are starting to declassify the addresses and soon we will know your names, telephone numbers and addresses”, the hackers report in their message.

Vladislav Zdolnikov, a former adviser to the Anti-Corruption Fund, said it would be difficult for the institution to maintain databases from now on.

“This is an unpleasant blow to the Anti-Corruption Fund on the day the Fund released its investigation into President Putin’s residence in Valdai,” Zdanov said.

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