An japanese European hacktivist group claims to have hacked the passport data of each single individual in Belarus, together with its autocratic chief, Alexander Lukashenko, who has referred to himself because the “last dictator of Europe.” After allegedly stealing the info final summer time, the gang, the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, minted a number of of the passports as NFTs—together with Lukashenko’s—and supplied them on the market on the crypto market OpenSea earlier this week. The gang, which is believed to be made up of nameless Belarusian tech specialists, has declared digital warfare towards the Lukashenko regime, which it deems corrupt and illegitimate.

“For the 1st time in human history a #hacktivist collective obtained passport info of the ALL country’s citizens. Now we’re offering you an opportunity to become a part of this history. Get a unique digital version of #lukashenka passport as #NFT,” the hackers tweeted on Tuesday. The passports are literally “mockups,” the Partisans told CyberScoop, and don’t signify the unique imagery of the true passports.

The similar day that they went up, OpenSea took down the choices, later telling Gizmodo that the crypto belongings had damaged its coverage round “doxxing.” An organization spokesperson defined:

“OpenSea’s Terms of Service prohibit doxxing and revealing personal identifying information about another person without their consent. We enforce our policy in various ways, including disabling buying and selling on violating content, delisting, and in some instances, banning accounts — as was the case in this instance.”

It is unclear whether or not the info are reliable or not. Yuliana Shemetovets, a spokesperson for the hacker collective, informed Gizmodo that “the hack of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (where the passport info was) happened in July 2021. The data used in these NFTs are from that passport database.”

The nation’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has been the topic of numerous hacking episodes, together with a minimum of one incident involving the Cyber Partisans that occurred final July. During that incident, the Partisans declare to have hacked an immense wealth of inside knowledge from the federal government, and subsequently started leaking parts of it to the press. The contents of the info have been by no means verified, however in addition they have been by no means contested by Belarusian authorities. Gizmodo tried to succeed in out to the Ministry for touch upon this newest incident, however its web site appeared unresponsive, and we have been unable to trace down a press electronic mail.

The Cyber Partisans have been stirring up bother for the Lukashenko regime for the previous a number of years. The gang says quite a lot of its hacks have focused authorities companies inside Belarus, together with a marketing campaign that started final November and focused the nation’s Academy of Public Administration. In January, the gang additionally claimed to have carried out a ransomware assault towards the Belarusian railway system. “The goal was to disrupt the work of freight trains in the hope it will affect indirectly Russian troops using the railroad to carry weapons and equipment to the Ukrainian border,” Shemetovets informed Gizmodo on the time. The supposed cyberattack, whereas intriguing to journalists and spectators, was by no means finally verified by outdoors sources.