Hackers claim 23TB stolen from Russian statistics agency, including war casualty data
Rosstat admits its servers were hit by coordinated attacks, though it disputes the scale of any leak, and the claims remain unverified.
Russia's Federal State Statistics Service, known as Rosstat, confirmed that its servers were struck by coordinated cyberattacks between October 29 and 31, though it disputed claims that tens of terabytes of information had leaked. The Belarusian CyberPartisans and Silent Crow say they obtained roughly 23TB of material, including wartime casualty data marked for official use only, even though Rosstat stopped publishing annual cause-of-death statistics in 2024. The groups also released a chart that, if authentic, would indicate between 25,000 and 50,000 Russian soldiers were killed each month over the past two years. Rosstat's website was reportedly defaced with hacker messages and remained offline at the time of writing. The claims remain unverified, and the CyberPartisans have promised further disclosures once they finish reviewing the data.
Why it matters
The episode puts the reliability of official Russian statistics in question at a time when those figures are scarce, since Rosstat stopped publishing annual cause-of-death data in 2024. If the leaked chart were authentic, it would point to casualty figures far above anything the state has published, but nothing has yet confirmed that. For readers following the war, the key uncertainty is whether the CyberPartisans' promised further disclosures can be checked against independent sources.
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