Cybersecurity

Hackers Crack Russia's Official Tender Site, Offer 'Control of Russia' to Highest Bidder

An unusual tender was announced on Russia's official public procurement site Thursday morning.

In what turned out to be the handiwork of hackers, an entity identified as the “administration of Mikhaylovskoye municipality” put a property management contract up for bid that would allow the winner to “rule the [Russian] state and turn a profit” from doing so.

The property was described as “the whole of the Russian Federation, including Crimea and Sevastopol, a population of 146 million, lots of oil, gas, forests, land and whatnot.”