List Of Hacks By Anonymous Since Russia-Ukraine War; Nestlé Denies Collective's Leak Claims

Anonymous, the decentralized international hacktivist collective, has hit Russia and others associated with the country over the invasion of Ukraine.

The most recent attack claimed by the group was on the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (the Bank of Russia).

While Anonymous hackers named their victims, many of the companies denied claims of being their target.

Anonymous collective posted a statement Tuesday, claiming they leaked over 10 GB worth of important data from Nestlé, including emails, passwords and client information. However, in emails to Gizmodo, a Nestlé spokesperson denied allegations from the hacktivist collective.

“This recent claim of a cyber-attack against Nestlé and subsequent data leak has no foundation," a spokesperson told Gizmodo. “It relates to a case from February, when some randomized and predominantly publicly available test data of a B2B nature was made accessible unintentionally online for a short period of time.”

Anonymous said they would target other businesses in its sweeping cyber offensive if they don't pull out of Russia. The international hacking collective is backing Ukraine, and has vowed to "punish" Russia for the invasion.

Taking to Twitter, Anonymous TV wrote it has hacked the Central Bank of Russia, and will release over 35,000 files within the next 48 hours with some documents of secret agreements.

Anonymous also conducted a printer hack, which allowed the collective to send a message across the transcontinental country.

"We have been printing anti-propaganda and tor installation instructions to printers all over #Russia for 2 hours, and printed 100,000+ copies so far. 15 people working on this op as we speak," the group tweeted.

The hackers confirmed to International Business Times the operation included PDFs printed on the hacked printers, with a message telling Russians their president, the Kremlin and Russian media were lying to them.

Last week, the group also teased a data dump, which they claimed will not only shake Russia but "blow it away." The collective did not reveal details on what this colossal data dump was about. However, they said the data was worth "hundreds if not thousands" of gigabytes.

The hacktivist collective hacked Russian TV channels and aired pro-Ukraine messages, and even hacked Russian streaming services and aired war footage. They also hacked Roskomnadzor, the country's media censoring agency.

Among the other targets was the Russian Space Research Institute, whose website they defaced. Anonymous also claimed to have hacked public cameras across Russia to superimpose messages against Putin and his army.