{"id":4817,"date":"2019-07-21T21:13:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T21:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2019-07-21T21:13:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T21:13:30","slug":"russias-secret-intelligence-agency-hacked-largest-data-breach-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/07\/21\/russias-secret-intelligence-agency-hacked-largest-data-breach-in-its-history\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA\u2019S SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY HACKED: \u201cLARGEST DATA BREACH IN ITS HISTORY\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/Lubyanka_Building.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4818\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/Lubyanka_Building.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/Lubyanka_Building.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/Lubyanka_Building-260x163.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/07\/Lubyanka_Building-160x100.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Zak Doffman<\/p>\n<p>Source: Forbes<\/p>\n<p>Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB\u2014Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor, exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social media, and help the state split its internet off from the rest of the world. The data was passed to mainstream media outlets for publishing.<\/p>\n<p>FSB is Russia&#8217;s primary security agency with parallels with the FBI and MI5, but its remit stretches beyond domestic intelligence to include electronic surveillance overseas and significant intelligence-gathering oversight. It is the primary successor agency to the infamous KGB, reporting directly to Russia&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2019\/07\/20\/russian-intelligence-has-been-hacked-with-social-media-and-tor-projects-exposed\/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=Valerie%2F&amp;fbclid=IwAR1prHg9_JucR0937xIUHBp7DSVaOhH3UMe6Lq5s8GbRDeqxW4goJXblZuM#76616c657269<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zak Doffman Source: Forbes Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB\u2014Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service. The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor, exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social media, and help the state split its internet off&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/07\/21\/russias-secret-intelligence-agency-hacked-largest-data-breach-in-its-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RUSSIA\u2019S SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY HACKED: \u201cLARGEST DATA BREACH IN ITS HISTORY\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}