Belarusian hacktivist group Cyber Partisans and hacker collective Silent Crow have claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack against Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), allegedly compromising thousands of government computers and extracting 23 terabytes of data.
The breach was reported by Belarusian news outlet Reform.news and subsequently covered by Ukraine’s Ukrinform news agency.
- Belarusian hacktivist group Cyber Partisans and Silent Crow claim to have breached the IT infrastructure of Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
- The hackers report gaining access to approximately 25,000 computers and extracting 23 terabytes of internal documents, databases and government information.
- The allegedly stolen records include information about Russian military losses in Ukraine, although the claims have not been independently verified.
According to Silent Crow, the attackers gained access to Rosstat’s central headquarters, regional offices and the Main Interregional Center for the Processing and Dissemination of Statistical Information.
Hackers claim control of 25,000 Rosstat computers
The groups claim to have compromised approximately 25,000 computers across the federal agency’s IT infrastructure.
The allegedly stolen information includes internal databases, official documents, government records and files stored on employees’ workstations.
“The scale of the incident goes far beyond the compromise of individual servers or user accounts,” the hackers said.
They described the operation as an intrusion into federal government infrastructure that provided access to central and regional networks, internal systems and official data repositories.
Stolen data allegedly includes Russian military losses in Ukraine
The attackers also claim that the extracted records contain information about Russia’s military losses during its war against Ukraine.
The bulk of the data consists of databases, internal documents, official information and data from employees’ work computers.
The reported scale of the breach, including the number of compromised devices, the volume of extracted information and the alleged military records, remains based on statements from the hackers.
No independent technical confirmation of those claims was provided in the reports.
