The Belarusian hacktivist group known as the Cyber Partisans said that they infiltrated Belarus' national intelligence agency, the Belarusian KGB. The group alleges that the breach occurred in the fall of 2023, during which they managed to extract sensitive data from the agency's official website.

The intrusion reportedly went undetected for several months until earlier this year, when the Belarusian KGB placed its website under maintenance mode.

Over the weekend, the Cyber Partisans leaked a copy of the website's database and server logs. The group claims to have accessed personnel files belonging to over 8,600 employees of the intelligence agency.

The Belarusian authorities did not comment on the alleged breach.

As proof to their claims, the hackers have released additional information on their Telegram channel, including a list of website administrators and the aforementioned database and server logs. The group has also launched a chat bot on Telegram, allowing Belarusians to purportedly identify KGB operatives by uploading their photos.

The news comes after the Cyber Partisans' recent activities aimed at pressuring the Belarusian government to release political prisoners. Last week, the group claimed responsibility for infiltrating the computers at Grodno Azot, the country's largest fertilizer plant.

According to the Cyber Partisans, they hacked the plant's security systems and surveillance cameras, encrypting hundreds of computers and internal emails, and wiped out backups of databases and servers.