On Friday, 25th November, the hacktivist group by the name of Black Reward attacked the database of the Iranian hardline Fars News Agency, claiming to have deleted nearly 250 terabytes of data from the website from its servers and computers.
The hackers also claimed to have obtained the confidential bulletins and directives sent by the news agency to the office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
For your information, Fars is the Iranian government-backed news agency managed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
According to the message posted by the hacker group, the compromised data also includes recorded calls, information on internal portals related to administrative conversations and news folders, image archives, and financial documents of the news agency.
