Russia hammered by pro-Ukrainian hackers following invasion

Badin was the FBI's most wanted man. The hacker is believed to have launched cyber attacks on Germany and the 2016 Olympics.

His email and Facebook accounts, mobile phone number, and even his passport information were leaked online a few weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, known as a voice of the Kremlin and home to Vladimir Solovyov, has been a target since the war broke out.

Almost a million emails from 20 years of the broadcaster were leaked onto the internet on March 30.

Russian companies and government bodies were swarmed by pro-Ukrainian hackers, many of them new and previously unknown players to cyber-security experts, as part of a widespread assault taking place in cyberspace.

The result has been hundreds of millions of documents spilling out from targets as varied as Transneft, a huge oil line operator close to the Russian government, Russia's Ministry of Culture, and an arm of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Russia is being hacked at an unprecedented scale by a lower tier of attacker, and there are tens of terabytes of data that are just falling out of the sky.

Historically, Russia was being popped by a higher tier of nations, but right now, the breadth of leaks is.

Russian state-backed hackers have been attacking the Ukrainian government for more than a decade. Ukrainian defenses have matched Russian aggression thanks to the support of the US government and intensive training of its own security agencies.

Russia is being hunted in the cyber arena by pro-Ukraine hackers, as well as some security researchers suspect, government-backed entities from western countries.

Some people banded together in order to bombard Russian websites with traffic in order to take them down. Russian companies temporarily fenced themselves off from the global internet to make sure their sites could only be accessed from Russia.