Mocking Russia’s Vladimir Putin (aka: ‘Vlad the Invader’) the hacking group ‘Anonymous’ renamed Putin’s $100 million luxury yacht from “Graceful” to “FCKPTN” by messing with online maritime tracking data.
The group, which has pledged to support Ukraine and has attacked Russian state broadcaster RT – also initially changed the boat’s location information to make it appear to have crashed into Snake Island in Ukraine.
The hackers later changed its destination to “hell.”
RUSSIAN SUPERYACHT: GO FUCK YOURSELF! #Anonymous #OpRussia #StandWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/wsNlrzjHMm
— Anonleaks📡 (@Theanonleaks) February 27, 2022
Putin’s super yacht has an indoor pool, spa, dancefloor, gym, bar, and a helipad. On another website Vesseltracker, the callsign of Putin’s yacht is still set to “ANONYMO.”
The Independent reported that:
The hackers also said this was “not an operation against the people of Russia. It’s not even one against Russian soldiers. The operation targets Putin and the Putin-controlled state apparatus, state-owned companies, the state-controlled media, and individuals and private companies that have benefited from Putin’s autocratic system for decades.”
“It is also directed against groups and media that carry Putin’s gaslighting abroad. Putin, who is using hacker squads and troll armies against Western democracies, is getting a sip of his own bitter medicine.”
To make these changes Anonymous had to hack the “Automatic Identification System” (AIS) used to track ship locations worldwide.
Putin’s yacht abruptly left Hamburg on February 9 before finishing repairs, according to German media, to avoid Western sanctions prior to Russia invading Ukraine.
The hackers said on a German Twitter account, according to Bloomberg reporter Ryan Gallagher, that they “wanted to put the yacht in the scope of sanction packages as well as ‘put a little smile on some faces for a short period in these dark times.’
Admitting the limited impact of their hacking, ‘Anonymous’ says their intention is to keep Russia’s cyber warriors on defense to restrain their ability to go on offense against Ukraine or NATO.
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What kind of half ass leaders to we have today Putin who allows killing of women and children or Joe Biden the baby killer of America. Time for both to return to the past where they belong.
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LISTEN UP….PUTIN Needs to be PUT to DEATH like SADDAM HUSSEIN. HE is COMMITTING WAR CRIMES. GOD is going to Bring the BAD WORLD LEADERS to their KNEES. GOD R ules MEN. HE has the LAST WORD. 😢😢😢😩😩😩
As long as these criminals are kept in wealth, they will use their people like fodder!
Everyone is standing by watching children and babies being killed by this MADMAN and no one , I mean no one is doing anything about it, because this thing call NATO said NO? who are we? you mean to tell me all of us are heartless? Suppose this was your MOTHER, GRAND MOTHER, WIFE and CHILDREN, would you stand by and watch them being killed by this MADMAN? This is one time I wish I was a man, I would have been in Ukraine fighting with the Ukraines, because what this idiot is doing, he has to be out of his mind, he is Loco, he doesn’t, care who gets in his way, he just wants to kill and until someone with GUTS steps up, this is going to be a Putin bloody WAR with Fathers, Mothers, children DEAD.
Cant they change what it navigates around in the water, like hidden rock formations, footage or depth from it enough to hit it? Where it will be headed! Like instead of where they think it’s going to another location making it go into another country to capture it, run aground on a deserted island!
After an EMP attack. hackers will be more irrelevant to society than they already are.
Most of you may want to investigate the atrocities committed by Ukraine against the breakaway republics. No country is without blood on it’s leaders hands!!
ALL gaslighting is SINISTER. Quoth Sir WInston Churchill: ‘In time of war, the first casualty is TRUTH’ (or words to that effect).