Olesya Shmagun - Justice for Journalists

Olesya Shmagun

Affiliated media: IStories , Founder of the project

Incident date: December 18, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: MBK Media

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

On the night of December 18, unknown persons tried to hack into the Facebook accounts of Dmitry Velikovsky and Alesya Marokhovskaya and into the Telegram accounts of Roman Anin, Olesya Shmagun, and Roman Shleynov, the authors of the investigation about Vladimir Putin's daughter and former son-in-law. The hacking attempts took place after Putin's press conference, where he first commented on the investigation about his relatives and accused the authors of working for Western intelligence services.

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