The Russian Interior Ministry confirmed that its servers were hacked on May 12. It is reported by Interfax. We are talking about "a virus attack on the department's personal computers running the Windows operating system." According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about a thousand devices were infected, that is, less than a percent of all computers of the department. “At the moment, the virus is localized.

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The authors of the WannaCry ransomware virus (also known as WCry) earned at least 3.5 bitcoins from their victims on May 12th. At the rate of 1740 dollars for one bitcoin, which was established by 22:00 Moscow time, this is a little more than six thousand dollars. Meduza analyzed the history of transactions for bitcoin wallets, to which the virus demanded to transfer money (this information is public ). We took the wallet addresses from the screenshots of the victims and report .

On May 12, some computers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee of Russia and MegaFon were infected with a ransomware virus (the media report this with reference to sources, the departments officially deny everything). The same thing has happened to many organizations around the world . Most likely, there is no question of a targeted attack.

In Chuvashia, the police accused Open Russia coordinator Semyon Kochkin of distributing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for reposting a fragment of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight show. We are talking about the video "How Chechen girls cheated ISIS militants" voiced by Andrey Bocharov.

Several activists were detained on Red Square, including Ildar Dadin, who were reading the Constitution. According to OVD-Info, 10 people were detained, they were taken to the Kitai-Gorod police department. In turn, TASS, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, reports on five detained activists, including Dadin.

Computers from the internal network of the Investigative Committee of Russia were hacked. This was reported by the sources of "Gazeta.ru". The same sources confirmed the information about the attack on the computers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The UK denies information about attacks on its servers, TASS reports .

Photo: Community "Overheard Megafon" "VKontakte" The Maurus virus is distributed around the world from May 12, which blocks access to the computer and requires ransom for unlocking. Infections are registered in Russia, where Megafon was infected, computers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and SK. The spread of the Wannacrypt virus (it is also called WCRY) began on the day of May 12.

Continuation. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia confirmed a hacker attack on its servers Computers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in several regions were infected with a virus. This is reported by the sources of "Mediazona" and "Varlamov.ru" . A Gazeta.ru source in law enforcement agencies reported that the computers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee were infected.

Photo: Zurab Javahadze / TASS On May 12, the court in Moscow rejected the complaint of the Corruption Fund against the inaction of the Minister of Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov. The FBK complained that Abyzov ignored the petition about the abolition of the “package of Yarova”, which gained more than 100 thousand signatures of Russians.

On May 12, Megafon was hacked. This was anonymously reported to Meduza by several employees of the company. The press service of Megafon confirmed the fact of the attack. Pyotr Lidov, director of public relations at MegaFon, told Meduza that “it all looks like in England,” where hospitals were attacked on May 12. “Computers were encrypted and asked for a ransom. The layout is the same,” he said.

In Spain, on May 12, hackers attacked one of the largest telecommunications companies, Telefonica, and a number of other organizations. This was reported in the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Technologies. Access to files was blocked on infected computers and ransom messages appeared. It is reported that the personal data of customers as a result of the attack was not affected. According to El Mundo, about 85 percent of computers in Telefonica were attacked.

Russian billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov has said he will not pay his ex-wife Tatiana Akhmedova £453 million following a decision by the High Court in London. It is reported by RBC. “This verdict applies only to the UK, where I have not had anything for a long time. I am not a British citizen, I have nothing to catch there for a long time, ”the businessman told the publication.

Photo: TV-3 At the National Film Festival of the Movement film in Omsk, the series were able to compete with films: at the opening ceremony, Oksana Karas showed the “excellent student”, and at the closure of Gogol with Oleg Menshikov and Alexander Petrov. Gogol is a TV-3 project, which will be shown in cinemas in 2017 and on the channel in 2018. “Excellent student” is the series of Channel One; The date of the premiere has not yet been set.