Black Mirror hackers will restore the channel deleted by Durov

Hackers claim that their activities continue in “working mode”

The hacker group Black Mirror, whose channel was deleted by the Telegram administration, is going to restore it, a representative of the group told Vorstka.

“No problem, we’ll restore everything within working limits. The base of our interested parties is always with us. We can always notify them about the appearance of interesting archives. There are a couple of interesting ideas for new presentation of materials. So in working mode, without any rush,” he said (author’s punctuation preserved - editor’s note).

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Black Mirror hackers posted correspondence between Russian officials and businessmen

Earlier, the Telegram administration blocked the Black Mirror channel for publishing personal data and extortion. The hacker group published correspondence and documents belonging to Russian officials and entrepreneurs. In particular, information was posted about “Putin’s confessor” Metropolitan Tikhon, director Nikita Mikhalkov, the Rotenberg brothers and others. The authors of the channel offered to buy this information to “interested parties.”

The day before, Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced the blocking of channels that collect and publish personal data of users for the purpose of blackmail, as well as those selling “negative blocking.” According to Durov, blocking for these reasons means that the administration of the messenger “has irrefutable evidence” that the channel administrators published “defamatory posts and then deleted them in exchange for payment from the victims.”

The hacker group Black Mirror has existed since 2019

As Radio Liberty reported , the Black Mirror telegram channel appeared in 2019 and since then has managed to sell many personal archives of famous Russian officials and businessmen - from Sergei Shoigu to Yevgeny Prigozhin .

The first “leaked” archive in the channel is related to the former head of the Presidential Administration, Alexander Voloshin. It contained working correspondence from the board of directors of the First Freight Company, which was chaired by Voloshin, correspondence about the entrepreneur’s foreign assets and lobbying for his own interests.

“Drains” have been published regularly since the summer of 2019: hackers usually posted only part of the archives in an open channel and sometimes shared them with journalists in order to spread information about new dumps, offering the rest for sale to “interested parties.”

Illustration: Jakub Porzycki via Reuters Connect

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