Pro-Ukraine hackers leak Russian data in hopes someone will make sense of it

In October, investigative journalists at Bellingcat identified a secretive group of Russian military engineers responsible for programming the flight paths of high-precision cruise missiles. Their attacks on Ukraine’s critical and civilian infrastructure had left millions of Ukrainians without electricity and heating and caused hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries.

Bellingcat used open-source intelligence and leaked information from Russia’s underground data markets to identify people in this group.

Such leaks have proven useful for investigative journalism groups – although it isn’t …

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