At the start of the month Iranian hacking group Tapandegan posted on Twitter that they had successfully hacked the Iranian Ministry of the Economy and Assets website in response to the leaked IRGC budget. The message can be seen in the image below:
The group's motivation appear to be anger at the enormous budget allocated to the IRGC and how secretive and wasteful the budget is as they believe this money could be used better to help the struggling Iranian people. These thing being so the group was prompted from mr Zarif's leaked interview where he claimed that cmdr Soleimani was a main decision maker for foreign policy and not the elected officials of the Majiles.
Tapandegan highlights also the hypocrisy in the Islamic Republic when they ask ordinary citizens to stop eating meat and chicken in response to economic hardships but they spend 66 thousand billion tomans for the IRGC to operate outside of the Iranian people's elected government to fight foreign wars. As the people suffer at home the IRGC can act with impunity with a large budget and little accountability.
The group previously has claimed responsibility for hacks at Mashad international airport in 1397 and tabriz airport also in 1397. Both hacks overtook computers screens in the airport to protest the wasting of Iranian lives and money in foreign wars such as Syria, Iraq and Gaza.
