According to CNN, hackers hit a prison database soon after the death of Navalny.
Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge.
Using their access to a computer network tied to Russia’s prison system, the hackers plastered a photo of Navalny on the hacked prison contractor’s website, according to interviews with the hackers, screenshots and data reviewed by CNN.
“Long live Alexey Navalny!” read a message on the hacked website, accompanied by a photo of Navalny and his wife Yulia at a political rally.
The hacker group claims to have copied a database with information regarding the status of prisoners. The also did some creative vandalism posting a pro Navalny message on the website, and lowered the prices of food items in the commissary — the article states that it took a couple hours for the management to notice the drop in the prices to almost nothing.
This is a breaking story, so more will come out about this. I might not get a chance to answer comments, because I need to get to bed for a few hours.