The Taliban authorities of Afghanistan is reeling after unidentified hackers efficiently carried out an enormous cyber assault towards its laptop techniques and revealed over 50GB of stolen paperwork and information on-line.
A gaggle calling itself TabiLeaks publicised on social media hyperlinks to the haul of knowledge it had exfiltrated from 21 Taliban ministries and authorities companies.
The leaked data included claims that the Taliban has imprisoned over 1400 ladies, and 16,000 males. Roughly 80 international nationals (together with six ladies) are additionally stated to be being held in Taliban prisons.
In keeping with the leaked knowledge, journey restrictions have been positioned on over 8,000 former authorities employees, banning them from leaving Afghanistan, and Taliban supreme chief Haibatullah Akhundzada has banned abroad educational journey with out his direct authorisation.
TalibLeaks says that the entire exfiltrated information had been taken up to now 12 months, and are available from compromised Taliban authorities networks.
The leak web site, which isn’t hosted on the darkish internet, claims to supply data hacked from the Afghan Meals & Drug Administration, Afghan Telecom Regulatory Authority, the Deputy PM for Financial Affairs, Ministry of Communications & Know-how, Ministry of Power & Water, Ministry of Trade & Commerce, Ministry of Mines & Petroleum, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Overseas Affairs, Ministry of Public Well being, Ministry of Refugees, Macrorayan Repairing & Upkeep Company, Nationwide Statistics and Info Authority, Workplace of Jail Affairs, Strategic Affairs Workplace, Technical Vocation & Coaching Authority, Ministry of Propagation of Advantage & Stopping Vice, and the Supreme Court docket.
Phew! That is fairly a listing.
The leaked paperwork revealed that the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Advantage and Prevention of Vice had carried out complete research on imposing the hijab and non secular policing throughout 12 provinces. In keeping with the report, Taliban officers have examined international organisations working in Bamiyan Province, alleging that they’re selling Western cultural values.
In a caustic be aware, the hackers posted on Twitter that “GDPR doesn’t apply in Afghanistan, identical to there aren’t any womens rights.”
While confirming that paperwork from a number of authorities departments had been leaked by the hackers, Taliban’s Ministry of Communications claimed that a lot of the information had been publicly accessible for years and that “”no system has been hacked, all techniques stay safe, and there aren’t any points.”
Taliban spokespeople went on to declare that the leak was an try to govern public opinion by way of the media.