Iranian hacker group "Black Reward" announced over the weekend that it had successfully hacked the internal email system of Iran’s Nuclear Power Production and Development Company and that it was releasing 50GB of files to the web.
"We will publish the download links respectively in the next few hours after uploading the information in the online file sharing service anonymously "namely anonfiles," the group wrote on their Instagram channel.
The files include "Raw version and backups related to Iran Atomic Energy Production and Development Company," "Version cleaned and visible in the browser along with about 100 thousand email messages" and "separated and sorted version of documents and information."
The group advised that in order to keep personal devices safe, it is preferably to check the attached and downloaded documents in a safe and offline Sandbox/VM.
As promised, Black Reward just published the first part of Nuclear docs/footage they hacked, in their Telegram channel.This is one of Iran’s nuclear reactors.Yesterday, they gave 24hrs to the I.R. to release ALL political prisoners or they leak the docspic.twitter.com/4nxXetC3tn
— Pouria Zeraati (@pouriazeraati) October 22, 2022
Black Reward threatens Iranian regime
The group threatened to leak the "dirty nuclear project of the Mullahs’ regime," as it wrote, if it does not release political prisoners and protesters detained during the ongoing nationwide protests across the Islamic Republic within 24 hours.
"24 difficult and important hours for the Islamic Republic started from this moment," the hacker group wrote on Twitter.
۲۴ ساعت سخت و مهم برای جمهوری اسلامی از همین لحظه شروع شد ✌️#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #OpIran pic.twitter.com/Nj9qe8A79m
— Black Reward - بلک ریوارد (@black_reward) October 21, 2022
Anti-government protests erupted in Iran last month after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was captured by Iran's "modesty police" for wearing a hijab improperly.
Amnesty International has said security forces killed at least 66 people in a crackdown after Friday prayers in Zahedan, in the southeast, on September 30, some of the deadliest unrest during five weeks of protests ignited by Amini's death.
This is a developing story.