- Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Baza, Independent online news agency

Incident date: July 3, 2020

Attack type:

Identity theft / phishing / doxxing

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Telegram channel of Nikita Mogutin

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Additional information:

The co-founder of Baza, Nikita Mogutin warned of an attempt to collect information by unknown persons on behalf of the non-existent Baza office in Saint Petersburg.

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