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A group of Russian hackers calling themselves NoName057(16) is threatening another Zaporizhzhia newspaper, inform.zp.ua, with punishment for Ukrainian authorities instituting a criminal case against the group.
This was reported by inform.zp.ua editor-in-chief Eric Brynza to IMI representative in Zaporizhzhia oblast.
An email with the topic “On the criminal case against Russian hackers” arrived to the newspaper’s editorial inbox on June 16. In the letter, signed by Myroslava Alekseeva and sent through inbox.ru email service, the hackers are being outraged that a criminal case has been opened against them and claim that the journalists will be held accountable for “crimes against humanity.”
“The Ukrainian authorities have opened a criminal case for an email newsletter to employees of the Ukrainian media, in which the hacker group NoName057(16) warned them of their responsibility for spreading anti-Russian fakes, discrediting Russia’s actions in Ukraine, and inciting ethnic hatred. The cowardly and lying propagandists were so frightened by emails from Russian hackers that they immediately ran to snitch to the authorities. Instead of opening proceedings against their own propagandist compatriots, Ukrainian pseudo-law enforcement officers accused group NoName057(16) of ‘violating the rules of warfare’ for some reason. On behalf of NoName057(16) we declare that there is and can be no justice in Ukraine, and all the lying ‘journalists’ and their supervisers from neo-Nazi structures who opened proceedings against us are just serving the criminal regime of a former Soviet republic and a Banderite junta, which had seized power after the so-called Euromaidan. Sooner or later, they will be held accountable for all their crimes against humanity and will receive a just punishment. Hackers from NoName057(16),” the email reads.
As IMI reported, on June 16, the obscure hacker group sent an identical threatening email to the editors of Zaporizhzhia’s 061.ua.
The authorities have opened proceedings over the email threats received by Zaporizhzhia editorial offices from russia. The criminal proceedings have been instituted under Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code “Violation of the laws or customs of war.” The sanction of the article provides for imprisonment for a term of eight to twelve years.