Mäile Machulite - Justice for Journalists

Mäile Machulite

Affiliated media: Baza, Journalist

Incident date: December 24, 2020

Attack type:

  • Breaking into email / social media accounts / computer / smartphone

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Editor-in-chief of the Baza media Nikita Mogutin said that in December 2020, the cloud storage of the employee of the media, Mäile Machulite, was hacked while she was in a coma. «On December 24, she noticed activity on her phone. Somebody logged into all of her accounts. Everything was out of her control. We realized that it was through the cloud. They hacked the cloud and logged into all of her accounts <...> Everything that was on the phone, everything was copied», — Mogutin said.

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