Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-12-31 00:00:00
Affected organization: BelTA
Affected country: Belarus
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Undetermined
Motive: Protest
Actor: Belarusian Cyber-Partisans
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Belarus
Description: Belarusian hacktivists from the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans collective shut down BelTA the country's leading state-owned media outlet, claiming they had wiped the main website servers and backups. The group claims its actions were retaliation against President Alexander Lukashenko's propaganda campaign.