Gained access to 2 billion rows. The total size of the stolen information is approximately 1TB.
Unknown hackers announced the destruction of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of Russia (Rosregister) and published a fragment of the database.
As a result of the hack, unauthorized persons gained access to 2 billion lines of information. The total size of the stolen information is approximately 1TB.
The database obtained by the hackers contains 2 billion rows, and the published part contains almost 82 thousand records containing names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and numbers of pension insurance accounts of Russians, as well as their ID in Rosregister.
Rosregister itself denied that the agency was a victim of the leak. At that time, an additional check was initiated there.
On January 7, the anonymous Telegram channel Silent Crow wrote about the breach of Rosreestr and the theft of the database of the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRN) with a volume of 2 billion lines.
“Rosregister has become a striking example of how large government agencies can fall in a matter of days. As a result, their data, which seemed to be reliably protected, ended up in our collection,” the message said.
It was mentioned that in this way the hackers congratulated the Russians at the beginning of the New Year and promised that the next Christmas gift is just around the corner.
Journalists analyzed data from randomly selected lines and concluded that some of the stolen data was reliable.
Let’s recall that on December 19, Russia carried out a large-scale cyber attack on state registries within the competence of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine to disrupt the operation of critical infrastructure.
On December 30, the Ministry of Justice resumed the operation of the first three main notary registries.
Source: korrespondent
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