Russia's statistics agency confirms a cyberattack claimed by Belarusian and pro-Ukrainian hackers
The Record lays out what the hackers claim, what Rosstat concedes, and what nobody has verified yet.
Rosstat, Russia's federal statistics agency, confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack over the weekend of October 31 to November 1 but disputed its scale, The Record reports. The Belarusian Cyber Partisans and the pro-Ukrainian group Silent Crow say they spent months inside its network, then wiped servers overnight on Saturday, claiming access to about 25,000 devices and data that includes mortality records and information on Russian military casualties. Other reports put the claimed haul at 23 TB.
According to Kommersant, cited by The Record, Rosstat's main site and regional portals were defaced with a Belarusian-language warning. Rosstat said its systems detected the activity in time, that it found no evidence protected information leaked or databases were compromised, and that it is working with law enforcement.
The claims have not been independently verified; the groups say they will publish samples. The same two groups claimed the 2025 Aeroflot attack, and Russia's Supreme Court has designated both as extremist organizations.