Website of Russia’s TASS news agency displays anti-Putin message after hack

Screenshot of a message which replaced the TASS Russian website on Monday (Screenshot)

• Russian TASS website was hacked early on Monday, displays anti-Putin message

MOSCOW: The website of Russian state news agency TASS was hacked on Monday, Reuters checks from several devices showed, with the regular site replaced with an anti-war message and calls to stop President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
"Dear citizens. We urge you to stop this madness, do not send your sons and husbands to certain death," read the message. "Putin makes us lie and puts us in danger. We were isolated from the whole world, they stopped buying oil and gas. In a few years we will live like in North Korea. What is it for us? To put Putin in the textbooks? This is not our war, let's stop it! This message will be deleted, and some of us will be fired or even jailed. But we can't take it anymore."
The message was signed "Caring journalists of Russia."
The message also featured a graphic reading "5,300 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine in four days. More than in the First Chechen War."
On Saturday, Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov announced the creation of an "IT army" to conduct cyberattacks against Russian targets.
Russia says its forces intervened in Ukraine in a “special military operation” to demilitarise the country.