"The largest cyberattack": the hackers of the Russian Federation broke the State Register of the Ministry of Justice and deleted all the data from them

According to Viceremier of Ukraine Olga Stefanishina, restoring access to these state registers will last about two weeks. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has declared a large -scale failure on the network that serves the state registers, and Russian hackers claim that they broke the "National Information Systems of Ukraine" and deleted all the information from the state registers. The Ministry of Justice reported on the network at 16:21 December 19.

"Unfortunately, we have encountered a serious call - a large -scale failure at the network infrastructure level that serves the registers," the message reads. The department explained that due to the work on the elimination of problems, single and state registers, as well as the websites of the Ministry of Justice, and the call center will not be available by the end of the day.

At the same time, the Russian hacker group Xaknet Team at 19:53 reported that it allegedly broke the state -owned enterprise "National Information Systems", which gave them the opportunity to enter the infrastructure of the Ministry of Justice itself and download the whole amount of data that were in these state registers. It is decided to delete all available information, "-said in a message of hackers.

Note that before the message from the Ministry of Justice-at 15:56-in the telegram-channel" Action "there was information that the registers of the Ministry of Justice are updated. "The Ministry of Justice's registers are updated, the national information systems are carrying out technical work, so at this time you can not use the services online," the message said in the evening. Today, the largest external cyberattack has been held for the State Registers of Ukraine lately.