Three hackers who were a part of Russia’s military intelligence service (GRU) Unit 29155 were sanctioned by the European Union for their roles in 2020 cyberattacks against Estonian government agencies.
The EU Council claims today that GRU officers Yuriy Denisov, Vitaly Shevchenko, and Nikolay Korchagin broke into multiple Estonian ministries and took thousands of confidential papers.
The Council said in a press release that thousands of private documents were stolen as a result of the cyberattacks, which gave attackers illegal access to sensitive data and classified information kept in a number of government ministries read more about EU sanctions Russian GRU hackers for cyberattacks against Estonia.
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