Hackers published private messages they attribute to journalist and media executive Ksenia Sobchak, pointing to supposed ‘agreements’ between her media empire and Russian officials

According to Meduza, journalist and media executive Ksenia Sobchak's email was hacked, with attackers briefly accessing her Telegram channels. Screenshots of messages attributed to her appeared in those channels, which Sobchak dismissed as fakes. The hacker group Black Mirror and the anonymous project VChK-OGPU subsequently published additional screenshots of her messages and voice recordings. The leaked correspondence reportedly contains details of supposed agreements between her media company and Russian officials. Sobchak has not confirmed the authenticity of these latest releases.

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