Ex-Minister of Justice Denis Maluska said that among the recently broken registers, most were already in the public domain.
But the Russians also managed to destroy the State Civil Registry, which is one of the most closed, Maluska said in a commentary to the UP.
The civil registry stores information, for example, about birth or marriage – “it would seem there is no secret,” says Maluska. However, there is also classified data regarding the secrecy of adoption.
According to the ex-minister, Russian hackers have changed their behavior, focusing not only on stealing information, but also destroying it. However, the Ministry of Justice, they say, has many copies of the registers, so they will be restored.
The ex-minister believes that there is no serious problem in deleting registries by Russian hackers, since there are backup copies and everything will be restored soon. He also does not consider it a problem that Russian hackers gained access to this data.
The Kid also recalled that the latest Russian cyber attack was far from the first.
Previously, judging by their statements, they focused on stealing information. Now they have not only stolen, but also destroyed this change in behavior of Russian hackers.
Background
On December 19, the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Olga Stefanishina announced the largest cyber attack on the state registries of Ukraine in recent times, carried out by Russian hackers. As a result, the work of unified and state registers, which are within the competence of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, was suspended. Due to the cyber attack, the provision of a number of services to citizens in the Action application was temporarily suspended.
The Telegram channel of the Russian hacker network XakNet Team claimed that they hacked the databases of the National Information Systems and the entire database of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, after which these databases were saved and then deleted, including backup copies on servers in Poland. The total volume of deleted data amounted to more than a billion rows, Russian hackers claim.
Source: Racurs
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