The State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection on Monday, January 17, reported a new hacker attack similar to those that were committed on the websites of government agencies on January 14.
On Friday, the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Oleg Nikolenko, said that the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other government agencies are down due to a hacker attack.
The Ministry of Education and Science website's home page reported that allegedly all personal data of Ukrainians had been uploaded to a shared network. The State Service for Special Communications reported that there was no leak of personal data due to a hacker attack. According to the agency, state websites in the country were subjected to the most powerful attack in the last four years.
"Today at 8 o'clock in the morning, a message appeared on the Prozorro Infobox forum page, similar to those used during the cyberattack on other government sites on January 14. The page has been disabled, and experts are investigating and working to promptly resume the work of the forum," the civil service noted.
The Prozorro Infobox Forum is a separate system that is not connected to the Prozorro procurement system. "According to the available information, neither the Prozorro Infobox information resource nor the Prozorro portal itself were affected. The public procurement system is operating normally," the ministry said.
Also, the State Service reported that almost all state resources, which were attacked by hackers, resumed their work.
The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have opened a criminal case on the fact of a cyber attack.
On the same day, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow had nothing to do with these incidents.
