This notorious Russian surveillance technology maker has been hacked – could this be the end of Protei?

• Hackers stole 182GB of Protei data, including years of email correspondence
• Protei builds DPI and SORM monitoring tools for governments and telecom operators worldwide
• Attackers defaced the site, signaling opposition to Russia’s surveillance ecosystem

Protei, a Russian company suspected of selling surveillance equipment to nation states, was recently hacked and had gigabytes of corporate data stolen.

An unknown person (or entity) broke into Protei on or around November 8th and defaced the site. Soon after, they shared a copy of the stolen data with DDoSecrets, a nonprofit transparency organization that indexes leaked, hacked or otherwise exposed data in the public interest and is often compared to WikiLeaks for releasing large data sets involving governments, law enforcement and corporations.