Overview
- Russia’s state statistics agency Rosstat reported that its main and regional websites were hit in a coordinated cyberattack and that messages from the Belarusian Cyber Partisans and Silent Crow appeared on agency pages.
- The hacking groups posted a claim that 23 terabytes of files were taken, including wartime loss figures, demographic and economic statistics, and documents marked for official use only.
- Rosstat denied that any protected databases or legally restricted information were leaked and said its monitoring systems detected suspicious activity so staff could respond.
- At the time of reporting Rosstat’s main site was inaccessible and independent verification of the hackers’ theft claim was not available.
- The episode follows earlier claims by the same groups against Aeroflot and the state real estate registry and highlights how Rosstat’s reduced public data releases make outside checks of wartime casualties harder and could shape future criminal probes and reporting.