hackers leaked 5 terabytes of Russians’ data online in early January – Kommersant

During the January holidays (from January 1 to January 9), hackers made 116.5 million records with data of Russians with a total volume of 5 terabytes publicly available, they said TASS in the press service of the Solar group of companies (GC), which deals with cybersecurity.

As Alexander Vurasko, head of the Solar Aura external digital threat monitoring service, told the agency, the figure for leaked information is 10% more than the same January period in 2023.

It is noted that in terms of the number of published data at the beginning of this year, the financial sector took first place in the Russian Federation (115.2 million lines). In addition, according to Solar Group, the telecom, retail, public sector, services and IT industries were also seriously affected by leaks. According to Mr. Vurasko, a slight lull was observed only on January 1; on the remaining days of the January holidays, specialists regularly recorded various cyber incidents.

The day before Roskomnadzor reported, which discovered 168 leaks of personal data of Russians in 2023. According to the agency, as a result of these leaks, 300 million records were made publicly available.

Alexander Kislov