This notorious Russian surveillance tech maker has been hacked – could it be the end for Protei?

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

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

An unknown individual (or entity) broke into Protei on, or around, November 8, 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 datasets involving governments, law enforcement, and corporations.