“Ukraine suffered the largest cyberattack on state registers in recent times. ”, — write: epravda.com.ua
Ukraine suffered the largest cyberattack on state registers in recent times. As a result of the attack carried out by Russian hackers, the operation of key systems of the Ministry of Justice was temporarily suspended. The hackers said they destroyed all the data they had access to, including backups on servers in Poland. Source: Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, Minister of Justice Olga Stefanishyna, statement by Russian hackers Details: According to Stefanyshina, the cyber attack led to the temporary suspension of the work of the Unified and State Registers, which are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. It was established that the attack was organized by Russian hackers with the aim of disrupting the functioning of key state services. Stefanishina’s direct speech: “Now, together with the team and specialists of other services, we are coordinating the work to counter the cyber attack and restore the systems. It is already clear that the attack was carried out by the Russians with the aim of disrupting the work of the state’s critically important infrastructure.” Advertisement: Details: The hackers claim that in total, more than 1 billion lines of data were stolen and deleted, including data stored in Poland. The minister reported that the following will be restored first: State register of acts of civil status of citizens; Unified state register of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs; State register of rights to immovable property and their encumbrances. The initial recovery time will be up to two weeks. “The specifics of providing services to citizens will be provided tomorrow during the day,” Stefanishyna said. “We are keeping the situation under control and are doing everything necessary to restore all services as soon as possible,” the Minister of Justice added. Advertisement: Ukrainian Pravda