Russian hackers broke into the systems of the United States Tax Service and stole the information contained in them.

According to APA, the head of the pro-Russian hacker group Killnet Killmilk said that members of the "Infinity Hackers BY" association of Belarus participated in the operation along with members of "Killnet".

He added that access to the databases was obtained through the corporate network of a logistics services employee of an American government agency that was phished.