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In 2023 hackers stole even more data from the Russian Federation than last year: who suffered stronger

As a result of the origins, about 310 million databases were found in the network, and 71% of the "fused" information about the Russians were posted in the open access. The Russian company "Kaspersky Laboratory" in its new report dedicated to significant leaks of information for 2023, reported that the number of stolen data increased by 33%, Servernews reports. The report states that the attacks themselves were less than in 2022, but the amount of stolen information increased.

Yes, last year the company counted 141 cases of data leakage belonging to users from the Russian Federation. The amount of information stolen at the time was calculated 230 million data sets. At the same time, 33 million records contained passwords from a variety of services used by citizens of the aggressor state. This year, the origins were 133, but the volume of stolen usersky information amounted to 310 million sets, which is 33% more than in 2022.

Records contained in passwords calculated 47 million. The document emphasizes that both the last year, the owners of small and medium -sized businesses were most affected by hacker attacks. But big business was also actively attacked-these hackers were getting 1. 5 times more than in 2022. Financial annexes and IT companies, retailers, education companies, headfhanters, online services were struck. Hackers most often broke the financial services and developers by kicking users.

But the data of employees of certain companies, they were less interested in. According to the study, 71% of compromised data are already open, in addition, 55% of the stolen information merged within a month after the hacking of Russian companies. The largest number of "drains" was organized through the Russian messenger Telegram. The bases were also discharged into Darknet and specialized forums.