Yekaterina Arenina

Affiliated media: IStories, Journalist

Incident date: January 31, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: JFJ's Telegram channel

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Unknown people tried to hack the Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, and VKontakte accounts of IStories journalists. The attacks were conducted against Alesya Marokhovskaya, Irina Dolinina, Gleb Limansky, and Yekaterina Arenina. They were all working at the Moscow protests on January 23 and 31. The editorial board links the hack attempt to the journalists' work at the protests.