On Friday, twenty fifth November, the hacktivist group by the title of Black Reward attacked the database of the Iranian hardline Fars Information Company, claiming to have deleted almost 250 terabytes of knowledge from the web site from its servers and computer systems.
The hackers additionally claimed to have obtained the confidential bulletins and directives despatched by the information company to the workplace of Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei.
In your data, Fars is the Iranian government-backed information company managed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In keeping with the message posted by the hacker group, the compromised information additionally consists of recorded calls, data on inner portals associated to administrative conversations and information folders, picture archives, and monetary paperwork of the information company.
English Translation by way of Google
“For years, the wage earners of “Fars Sludge Spreading Firm” have been considering that nobody is defending them and they will gasoline for themselves. However false creativeness! Spreading lies, spreading rumors, creating circumstances towards the individuals of Iran, working and writing, has a heavy penalty; particularly when the “fact turns into clear”, the curtains fall and the lowly nature of those wage earners is revealed to everybody.”
“A lot of the black deeds letters of every official worker and unofficial collaborator of Fars Sludge Firm are in our possession at present with all the small print and we give this warning to different ration eaters of the IRGC and Mullahs that darkish and tough days are ready for them. We are going to come to you one after the other.”
“We additionally give this excellent news to our expensive compatriots that every one the data of the Fars Sludge Firm, together with the confidential information bulletins that they despatched to the management and the IRGC, together with faxes, recorded calls, data on inner portals associated to administrative conversations and information folders, picture archives.”
“Additionally, the monetary paperwork have all been downloaded, and we’ve additionally eliminated almost 250 terabytes of knowledge, or in different phrases, what’s and what’s not Fars Sludge Spreading Firm from the start till now, from all of the servers and computer systems belonging to this assortment – For girl, life, freedom for #Mehsa_Amini.”
Nevertheless, Fars Information has denied the extent of the hack as described by the hackers. They described the hackers as solely with the ability to destroy the data and information from Friday and reiterated that different data and databases of the information company had not been breached.
This isn’t all. The hackers additionally printed a video apparently displaying a journalist from the company engaged in an indecent sexual act on the company’s workplace. The alleged safety digicam footage has gone viral on Iranian social media.
The video was posted from the information company’s supervisor Habib Torkashvand’s Twitter account which was hacked by the Black Reward group. It was captioned:
“These are the freeloaders of Fars! At the start of each week, after coming to the workplace, they have to examine who has been at their desk the day earlier than and jerked off!”
Fars Information denied that the footage belonged to them however among the customers on Twitter have recognized the particular person within the video to be one of many financial editors of the web site.
Moreover, this isn’t the primary time Black Reward has attacked the state or the businesses supporting it. As reported by Hackread.com earlier in October, the group claimed to have hacked the e-mail system of Iran’s Nuclear Energy Manufacturing and Growth firm and threatened to launch its paperwork if the federal government didn’t halt its clampdown on protestors. They stated the overall information obtained was 50 GB in measurement.
Nevertheless, after the 24-hour deadline handed and the federal government’s offensive towards the protestors didn’t cease, Black Reward printed a trove of paperwork from Iran’s nuclear program.
Previously weeks, the group additionally hacked the emails of managers and workers of Press TV state channel and the staff of Al-Zahra College in Tehran in addition to the Authorized Medication Organisation of the nation, urging them to help the protests taking place within the nation.
In mid-September when anti-regime protests started, Black Reward together with the group referred to as Tepandegan, despatched thousands and thousands of texts inviting individuals to take part in protest rallies.
Black Reward group’s hack comes simply days after an Iranian hacker group by the title of Moses Workers, posted beforehand unseen footage of a lethal bombing in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. The footage was obtained from a surveillance digicam utilized by a significant Israeli safety group.
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