News01 September 2022

Hackers try to sell the passport of Alexander Lukashenko as NFT

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According to the information, they could access the database of all republic residents, including the president. Still, it is impossible to prove the integrity of the information to the end.

A group of hacker partisans called "Belarusian cyber partisans" wanted to sell NFT. Not a simple one, but a JPEG, which depicts the passport of the president of the Republic of Belarus.

As the hackers said, the money would be used to fight the "regime". But how did they manage to pull off such a venture? Judging by the information received, they hacked into a single government database, where all passports r located, including the president himself.

After that, they created an NFT collection of "Belarusian Passports," which included the passport of Alexander Lukashenko. Although, at the same time, some observers have accused the information on the digital passport of being fake because of a typo on the first page of the word "Republic" and the misspelling of the name "Alexander".

The collection was removed because it violated the Opensea platform's principles of disclosing a person's personal, including identifying, information without their consent. 

"We, the free citizens of Belarus, refuse to submit to this state. We are forming self-defense as a popular response to the terror unleashed. Our ultimate goal is the elimination of the dictatorial regime," is the group's latest message to date.

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