Hackers Offer to Sell Belarus President Lukashenko’s Passport as NFT

September 3, 2022

Anti-government hackers have tried to promote what they are saying is an NFT of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s passport. The members of the ‘Belarusian Cyber Partisans’ collective declare to have obtained the passport knowledge of the entire nation’s residents.

Cyber Guerrillas From Belarus Try to List NFT Passport Collection on Opensea

A hacking group often known as ‘Belarusian Cyber Partisans’ have bragged about having access to a authorities database storing the passport particulars of each citizen of Belarus, together with high-ranking officers just like the nation’s long-term head of state, Alexander Lukashenko.

The hackers have launched a set of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) referred to as “Passports of Belarusians,” which additionally is claimed to comprise the passport knowledge of the nation’s president and his shut associates. The group additional tried to record the gathering on main NFT market Opensea, however the platform eliminated it as a violation of its phrases.

🧵1/3🔥For the first time in human historical past a #hacktivist collective obtained passport information of the ALL nation’s residents. Now we’re providing you a chance to change into part of this historical past 😎. Get a novel digital model of #lukashenka passport as #NFT https://t.co/gOlWdoUehi pic.twitter.com/RxdWpBqA8f

— Belarusian Cyber-Partisans (@cpartisans) August 30, 2022

Promoting their initiative on Twitter, the group famous it’s launching the NFTs precisely on Lukashenko’s birthday, Aug. 30. “Help us destroy it for him,” they urge followers whereas additionally suggesting a “particular supply” — to purchase a model of his passport with a photograph of “the dictator… behind the bars… whereas he’s nonetheless alive.”

In one other tweet, the hacktivist collective says it has additionally put the passports of Lukashenko’s closest allies “and traitors of the individuals of Belarus and Ukraine” up on the market. Its members promise that each one raised funds will go to help “our work in hitting bloody regimes in Minsk & Moscow.”

However, some within the crypto group have doubted the authenticity of the identification paperwork, the Russian crypto information outlet Bits.media remarks in a report. It factors to a typo on the primary web page depicted within the digital model of Lukashenko’s passport and a misspelling of his first title in English.

‘Belarusian Cyber Partisans’ has been concentrating on the Lukashenko-led administration of the Eastern European nation for its help — logistical and in any other case — of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. For instance, it took duty for a cyberattack on the Belarusian railroad system, demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from the nation.

The hacking group has been raising funds in cryptocurrency to finance its actions. According to a report by blockchain analytics agency Elliptic printed in early February, earlier than Russia launched its “particular army operation” in Ukraine, the Belarusian cyber guerrillas had been in a position to accumulate $84,000 in BTC within the previous six months.

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