Muscovy has become the global leader in leaks of citizens’ personal data.

This figure is twice as high as in the countries of Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and the CIS.

In Muscovy, 326 data breaches were recorded in 2025 and the first six months of 2026, compromising 1.175 billion rows of data belonging to Muscovite users, analysts at F6, a developer of IT solutions to combat cybercrime, calculated. The number of database leaks was almost twice the corresponding figure for the countries of Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, and other CIS countries combined (164 cases), reports Comnews.

According to Elena Shamshina, technical director of F6’s cyberintelligence department, the number of “leaked” databases belonging to Muscovite companies declined in the first half of 2026. However, the expert noted, attackers continue to target Muscovite organizations at an “unprecedentedly high level” “with the aim of causing maximum damage.”

“One of the deepest digital ecosystems has historically developed in Muscovy. Gosuslugi, banking, telemedicine, delivery services, car sharing—all of this generates colossal amounts of personal data. Where there is a lot of data, there are also many potential points of failure. In the countries of Latin America, the Middle East, or Africa, the penetration of digital services is often lower, which means there is not much to steal yet—the volume of accumulated data is smaller,” noted Igor Bederov, chairman of the Council for Countering Technology-Related Offenses of Muscovy’s KS NSB (Coordinating Council of the Non-State Security Sector).

Muscovy had previously also ranked among the world leaders in the volume of data “leaked” online. Thus, at the end of 2024, Muscovite government agencies and commercial companies accounted for 778 of the 9,175 known cases of data compromise worldwide. This amounted to 8.5% of global data breaches. Thus, Muscovy ranked second by this indicator after the United States (36.1%), according to a corresponding InfoWatch report. India ranked third (5.4%), followed by the United Kingdom (3.8%) and Canada (2.9%).