Belarusian and Ukrainian hackers launch cyberattack on Russia's statistics agency

On November 2, 2026, an alliance of Belarusian and pro-Ukrainian hackers claimed to have launched a cyberattack on Russia's federal statistics agency, Rosstat, stealing vast amounts of sensitive government data. The attackers, identified as the Belarusian Cyber Partisans and Silent Crow, allegedly spent six months inside Rosstat's network before launching a destructive operation that wiped servers and disrupted systems. They purportedly gained access to approximately 25,000 computers and other devices across Rosstat's headquarters, regional offices, and main statistical data processing center, breaching databases containing economic, demographic, and personal information. The hackers claimed to have compromised systems used to manage the agency's network, including domain controllers, virtualization platforms, and infrastructure management tools, as well as confidential mortality records detailing causes of death in Russia and nonpublic statistics from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. Rosstat confirmed that it had been targeted by a cyberattack but disputed the hackers' claims about the extent of the breach, stating its security systems detected suspicious activity in time for specialists to respond.