Cryptocurrency

Twitter thread by Belarusian Cyber-Partisans

2022-08-30 [vendor] Hacktivists release passport NFTs [chain] ethereum
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Blockchain(s) Ethereum

Incident Details

A hacktivist group calling themselves the Belarusian Cyber Partisans managed to gain access to the entire passport records of Belarus last year. On August 30, they began selling NFTs created from the passport data of various Belarusian officials, including the country’s authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko. Other passports include those of the head of the Belarusian KGB, Lukashenko’s press secretary, and the country’s prime minister.The group is selling the NFTs for between 0.2 and 6.5 ETH ($300–$9,700), and say that all proceeds will go towards “our work in hitting bloody regimes in minsk & moscow”.OpenSea took down the NFT collection shortly after it was published.

Technical Details

Vendor / Product
Hacktivists release passport NFTs

Timeline

  1. 2022-08-30 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-08-30 Publicly disclosed