Ukrainian hackers trick wives into exposing Russians soldiers
A group of Russian wives have been tricked into exposing personal information about their husbands by Ukrainian hackers.
Russian wives have been duped into exposing information about their husbands in the military.
The pilots are allegedly responsible for a horror bombing that killed hundreds of Ukrainian civilians in a theatre.
Ukrainian hacker group Cyber Resistance managed to get access to the email of Russian Colonel Sergei Atroshchenko.
They then tricked the colonel’s wife Lilia Aleksandrovna Atroshchenko — and the partners of his colleagues — into sending them sultry photos.
In the process the wives revealed personal information about their husbands.
It’s alleged by Cyber Resistance and volunteer organisation InformNapalm that Col. Atroshchenko ordered two 500kg bombs to be dropped on a Ukrainian theatre on March 16, 2022.
The building in Mariupol was being used as an air raid shelter at the time and the word ‘CHILDREN’ was written in the courtyard. Up to 600 people are estimated to have died in the attack that Ukraine has branded a war crime.
While accessing Col. Atroshchenko’s emails, the hackers noticed that Lilia liked to send her husband “photo surprises” — some of them nude images.
Some of the more “decent” images were published by Ukrainian activist website InformNapalm.
Lilia was then fooled into believing she was communicating with an officer from her husband’s regiment and agreed to make a new “surprise” for Col. Atroshchenko and other officers.
They would do a “patriotic photo shoot” at an airfield while wearing the formal uniform jackets of their husbands with full decorations.
The photos were meant for the eyes of their partners and not for the general public. Lilia agreed to the request and “organised everything.”
She reportedly had sway over the “lower-ranking” wives because of her position as the wife of a unit commander.
On March 16 this year Lilia sent the Ukrainians a video along with “pin-up” photographs of the women.
A number of the women wore high heel shoes and some wore short skirts or exercise tights.
The images included close-up shots of the wives in jackets — whose husbands are normally “very careful” not to be photographed and keep a low profile on social media.
The hackers were able to use those images to establish personal information about the soldiers and link them to the horrific bombing.
The hackers released “sensitive information” about Col. Atroshchenko and his regiment revealing details about his address, passport and salary.
The hackers also managed to get into the personal archives within the Russian Ministry of Defense, gaining access to regimental records such as pilots performance evaluations, officer records and operational planning documents.
A 16-page text and slide presentation was accessed that had details on improving Russian air force interceptor tactics against NATO AWACS aircraft.
Col. Atroshchenko was born in Ukraine’s Ovruch region in 1981. He moved to Russian-occupied Crimea in 2016 after Russia illegally annexed the region.
His unit, the 960th, is based in occupied Crimea and operates Su-25 ground attack aircraft, the Kyiv Independent reports.
His regiment is believed to have conducted hundreds of air strikes on Ukrainian homes and businesses.
The regiment was recently designed as “Guards” after an executive order by Russian President Vladimir Putin because of its “excellent combat performance in strikes along the southern front”.
The activists also sent the new evidence to the International Criminal Court for the “execution of an arrest warrant”.
Originally published as Ukrainian hackers trick wives into exposing Russians soldiers
