"Drawing the right results is a huge stress on the system": Hackers hacked the websites of the Central Election Commission's largest contractors.

Anonymous hacker group CikLeak gained access to the infrastructure of the Central Election Commission and its largest contractors, including Rostelecom and Tsifrtech, which are involved in developing the new version of the GAS Vybory system, launched this year.

The hackers claim to have downloaded secret documents and internal chats from developers, as well as obtained server configurations, passwords, and much more.

"We don't interfere with the work of election commissions or the voting process, but we help shed light on how it works from the inside. We want Russian citizens to learn more about how the authorities can rig elections." is emphasized in their statement.

The hackers' appeal included a link to a game-like adventure through the Central Election Commission's dungeon, designed to find a secret computer and upload the "required results" to the State Automated System "Elections."

"The Central Election Commission has built a completely opaque system of remote electronic voting. This is the easiest way to steal votes," hackers note. — But now we see from the inside that holding elections and producing the desired results is a huge stress on the system. Let's not make their job easier: come to the polling stations with your feet, on the last day of voting, to make the results harder to falsify."

They also recommended that members of election commissions not participate in falsifications.

"We know who you are," the hackers emphasized. “Don’t help the regime continue the war and kill people.”

The publication "Important Stories" is already confirmed the authenticity of the hacked archive and promised to soon reveal how the GAS "Vybory" system actually works. Meanwhile, the director of Tsifrotech Alexey Gusev When asked to comment on the hack, he replied: "I'm hearing this for the first time."