Armenia probes alleged sale of 8 million government records on hacker forum

Hackers are offering for sale what they claim is a large trove of Armenian government-related data, prompting officials in Yerevan to open an investigation into a potential breach, reported on 13 January 2026. The dataset, advertised on an underground forum for $2,500, is said to contain about 8 million records linked to official notifications, including communications from police and judicial bodies, and the seller goes by the alias dk0m.

The alleged seller said it gained access to a government notification system used to distribute official communications, including legal and administrative notices. In a statement on Saturday, according to the Public Relations and Information Center of Armenia (PRIC) — a government-linked strategic communications body — denied that the country’s government email infrastructure had been breached, but said attackers may have accessed data from another state platform. Read more at The Record.