Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-03-10 00:00:00
Affected organization: Roskomnadzor
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Protest
Actor: Anonymous
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Anonymous breached the database of a Russian federal agency responsible for supervision of communication, information technology and mass media, and then released 820 GB of data from a sector of the agency:
 - Over 360,000 files from the network, totaling 526.9 GB. Some as recent as March 5, 2022.
 - Two directories containing the raw data files (290.6 GB). One appears to be a legal research database that was last modified in 2020. The other appears to be a database for HR procedures.