A hacker group calling itself BUTTERFLY claims it has breached the database of Uzbekistan's former Personalization Agency, and says it published the...
A hacker group calling itself BUTTERFLY claims it has breached the database of Uzbekistan's former Personalization Agency, and says it published the personal data of the digital technologies minister as proof, issuing an ultimatum to the authorities.
According to Uzbek-MDK, the group claims the breach puts 27 million Uzbekistanis at risk. The same report recalls that a young Uzbek hacker found a serious vulnerability in a ministry system in late September that could have exposed passport data, personal identification numbers, photos and addresses of almost 40 million people. When he reported it, the report says, he was first brushed off, and the hole was closed only after he appealed to the Cybersecurity Center.
These claims are unconfirmed: no official confirmation of the BUTTERFLY breach appears in the source report, and the scale of any leak has not been independently verified. But the episode fits a pattern Uzbekistan has seen all autumn, with leaked databases and disputed breach claims circulating alongside official denials.
What to watch: whether the authorities confirm or deny this specific claim, and whether any of the published data is verified as genuine.
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