Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge.
Using their access to a computer network tied to Russia’s prison system, the hackers plastered a photo of Navalny on the hacked prison contractor’s website, according to interviews with the hackers, screenshots and data reviewed by CNN. “Long live Alexey Navalny!” read a message on the hacked website, accompanied by a photo of Navalny and his wife Yulia at a political rally.
CNN has requested comment from JSC Kaluzhskoe, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service and the individual website administrators that the hackers claim to have outsmarted. On February 19, the day after the hackers defaced the website and replaced it with Navalny’s photo, JSC Kaluzhskoe posted on Russian social media platform VK that it had experienced a “technical failure” that led to the “prices for food and basic necessities” being “reflected incorrectly.
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