Anatoly Chubachenko

Affiliated media: Prestupnosti.net, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: July 10, 2022

Attack type:

Cyber-, DDoS, and hacker attack on a media outlet

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Ukraine, Mykolaiv Oblast, Mykolaiv

Additional information:

Hackers hacked the main YouTube channel of Prestupnosti.net, as well as the Facebook account of the editor-in-chief, and deleted them. Presumably, it could have been Russian hackers, since the contact information was changed to Russian.

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