ReportedUpdated 3 Nov 2026
Rosstat cyberattack
What happened
An alliance of Belarusian and pro-Ukrainian hackers claimed to have taken out Russia's federal statistics agency, Rosstat, and stolen vast amounts of sensitive government data in a cyberattack over the weekend.
Reported impact
An affected population has not been established in the accepted evidence.
Reported data types
government idshealth data
- Data access
- accessed
Source evidence
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The Record01Russia's statistics agency confirms cyberattack claimed by Belarusian and Ukrainian hackers | The Record from Recorded Future News
Retrieved 3 Nov 2026
The Belarusian Cyber Partisans and the pro-Ukrainian hacking group Silent Crow [said](https://telegra.ph/KIBERATAKA-NA-ROSSTAT--SLUZHBU-GOSUDARSTVENNOJ-STATISTIKI-RF-11-01) Sunday they spent months inside Rosstat's network before launching a destructive operation that wiped servers and disrupted the agency's systems.
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We reached the agency's critical systems while systematically extracting sensitive data and internal documents
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breached databases containing economic, demographic and personal information, census records and internal government correspondence
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confidential mortality records detailing causes of death in Russia
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Updates and corrections
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