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A hacker hacked the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry
The official website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been hacked.
According to CNN, the site was hacked by a hacker who calls himself Jester. He published a message addressed to Russia: “You can push around the countries that are next to you, but this is America. Nobody is impressed."
Jester told CNN that he decided to hack the Russian Foreign Ministry's website after a massive October 21 attack on Dyn's DNS servers. At that time, many American users had access to Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and some other major services disabled. The attack was investigated by the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation confirmed to the radio station "Moscow speaking" that the site had been hacked. At the same time, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova , said that we are talking about "an old site that has not been operated for a long time."
"The site has been hacked. By whom - experts find out. Attacks on the site have become more frequent since 2013,” the source said.
- In recent months, attacks attributed to Russian hackers have become one of the hottest topics in the US. First of all, the computer systems of the American Democratic Party were attacked. In early October, the US Department of Homeland Security officially accused Russia of being involved in the hacking of sites.