Hackers claim Rosstat breach revealed high Russian war deaths

The hacker groups Kiberpartizany BY, also known as Cyberpartisans BY, and Silent Crow claim to have carried out a large-scale cyberattack on Russia's Federal State Statistics Service, known as Rosstat, Euronews reported. The Telegraph also reported on the data leak regarding the death toll. According to Euronews, the hackers claimed to have stolen approximately 23 terabytes of data, including demographic statistics, economic statistics, and internal documents. [1][2]

Using the stolen data, the hacker groups calculated Russian military losses since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Euronews reported. The groups estimated that between 393,000 and 450,000 Russian personnel have been killed in the conflict. [1]

Separately, Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure caused widespread power outages across eastern Ukraine, Al Jazeera reported. The attacks left approximately 850,000 people without electricity in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions. In the Dnipropetrovsk region alone, more than 600,000 residents lost power across the Pavlohrad, Samarivskyi, Kamianske, and Dnipro districts, as well as the city of Dnipro, following an overnight attack on an energy facility. Ukrainian power company DTEK stated that engineers were working to restore the damaged facility. [3]

Euronews.com and Yahoo News Canada both reported that Russian strikes also hit the Kyiv region, causing damage to local infrastructure. Additionally, Al Jazeera reported that the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia faced threats as Russian drones closed in on the area. [4][5][6]