​The Ukrainian government's military intelligence service says it hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service (FNS), wiping the agency's database and backup copies.

The Ukrainian government’s military intelligence service says it hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service, wiping the agency’s database and backup copies.

Following this operation, carried out by cyber units within Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, military intelligence officers breached Russia’s federal taxation service central servers and 2,300 regional servers across Russia and occupied Ukrainian territories.

As Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence says, the repercussions of the cyberattack have been severe, causing a breakdown in communication between Moscow’s central office and the 2,300 territorial departments that also got hacked in the attack.

It has led to a virtual collapse of one of Russia’s vital governmental agencies with a significant loss of tax-related data, according to GUR, as well as tax data-related internet traffic across Russia falling into the hands of Ukraine’s military hackers, as The Record first reported.

“This means a complete destruction of the infrastructure of one of the main state bodies of terrorist Russia and numerous related tax data for a long period,” GUR said.

GUR said it hacked Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency last month, gaining access to classified data and leaking it online.

The impact of these cyberattacks underscores Ukraine’s increased cyber warfare efforts against Russia, leveraging its military intelligence cyber units to disrupt critical Russian infrastructure.

Summary by smmry.com

  • NoneYa
    314·
    6 months ago

    Ah how I wish someone would delete the IRS’ records and backups 🥰

    But on a relevant note, that is major! Hitting Russia in the wallet is going to hurt. The morale among the civilian population can get worse under this too.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      18·
      6 months ago

      I’m actually wondering how many Russian billionaires are celebrating today that the tax department has lost the records of all the tax bills they haven’t paid.

      • NoneYa
        9·
        6 months ago

        I bet a ton are. And probably not for current years but past years of making mistakes, whether on purpose or not are likely now gone and they effectively have a clean record.

        But I wonder if they had anyone making payments. How are they going to know their balance? This is assuming their tax structure is similar to what the US has.

        It could benefit a lot of people from all classes. But could also create a lot of havoc when the government demands to be paid and the people don’t agree with the numbers being demanded.

        • Vilian@lemmy.ca
          2·
          6 months ago

          err, i think it dosen’t matter, biolionary already rule the country, so they weren’t going be held accountable to begin with

      • lad@programming.dev
        3·
        6 months ago

        Optimistically, whatever tax is not getting paid, it converts to money not being spent to continue the war. Realistically I would expect the government to cut every other expense but the war, so this is not going to influence the war short-term :(

        The thread starter is probably right about civilians’ morale, cause they are going to be sucked dry of any money even faster with this kind of fuck-up from government

      • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yeah it’s the rich that benefit from this, same if it happened to the US. The rich take longer to audit than the poor