A large collection of about 108 gigabytes of documents and emails belonging to Russian government officials and oligarchs has been leaked. It includes emails and documents from the Russian Interior Ministry, the Russian weapons exporter Rosoboronexport, and Kremlin officials, oligarchs, and separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.

“Hacktivism” has been on the rise over the past few years and this is yet another case in the long list of hacktivist leaks. Governments around the world are no strangers to these leaks. But they do raise important questions about the levels of cybersecurity protections employed by governments around the world, even the ones that are viewed as power centers of the world.

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