Hackers Breach Infrastructure of Key Unified Military Register Developer

An anonymous hacker group has breached the infrastructure of Mikord — one of the key developers of the Unified Military Register (UMR), the human rights organization Go by the Forest, to which the hackers handed over a trove of documents, reports.

The hackers had been inside the system for several months. They gained access to the source code, technical documents, and internal correspondence of Mikord. The group claims it destroyed the company’s infrastructure.

IStories contacted Mikord director Ramil Gabdrakhmanov, who confirmed the hack: “Listen, well, who hasn’t been hacked? These days, a lot of people are under attack.” When asked whether the company is involved in the development of the UMR, Gabdrakhmanov declined to answer. “I can’t comment on anything. We work on different projects,” he said.

Go by the Forest provided the documents received from the hackers to IStories journalists; the newsroom verified their authenticity and confirmed Mikord’s involvement in the development of the UMR. Soon, we will tell you how the register and its main components work.

Plans by the Russian authorities to create a digital military register became known in April 2023, when the corresponding bill was adopted by the State Duma in a single day, passing both the second and third readings at once. At that time, Meduza first named one of the register’s developers — according to the publication, it was RT Labs, a subsidiary of Rostelecom.

In February 2024, the government designated Rostelecom as the sole contractor for the Ministry of Digital Development’s contracts to create the Unified Military Register. The deadline for completion of the state contracts was set for December 31, 2024. From Putin’s orders it also followed that the UMR and the summons register were planned to be used already in the fall 2024 draft, but the full launch of the new system took place a year later. Since October 2025, draft notices in the electronic register began to be posted by military commissariats in dozens of regions across the country, and in four of them, they even abandoned paper draft notices altogether.