Anonymous collective attacked the German subsidiary of Rosneft
The Anonymous collective has reportedly attacked the German affiliate of the Russian oil company Rosneft and stolen 20 terabytes of data. A senior security official told DER SPIEGEL that the attackers penetrated deep into the systems and could have caused the control functions to crash. Rosneft has filed a criminal complaint with the Berlin State Criminal Police Office and reported the incident to the BSI, as it is obliged to do as a critical infrastructure company.
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