Istai Utepov

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: April 27, 2017

Attack type:

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

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

On April 25th, Istai Utepov, a blogger and civil activist from Uralsk, informed his friends and acquaintances that his Facebook account and mail.ru email account had been hacked and provocative posts had been sent out on his behalf by unknown persons.