Russian authorities have lost data needed to control the country, CyberPartisans told DW.
"A condition for government in the country is access to databases and their analysis. I will refrain for now from estimating how much data was destroyed. But this estimate exceeds our wildest predictions," said Dmitri Shchigalsky, a representative of the Cyberpartisans group, on the DW Morning program. In the past, this group, along with the Silent Crow group, gained access to a large amount of Rostat data.
"All data is duplicated many times. But in Russia this is not the case. Therefore, we are grateful to them for their assistance in destroying data that could not be recovered and weakening the protection of their databases," Szczygalski noted.
A CyberPartisan representative noted that Russian authorities still have "certain information." "But for planning and evaluation, experts don't need newspaper headlines, but a database, access to raw data. And that data was definitely destroyed," he added.
In the past, it was published in the publication "Prisa" that after the cyber attack, it became clear that most of the statistics published in Excel documents on the Rostat website are not accessible.