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ATMs stopped working: Oschadbank stated problems due to attack on Kyivstar

According to representatives of the financial institution, difficulties in the use of some services will be eliminated only after the failure of the mobile operator services will be eliminated. In the morning of December 12, a large -scale failure occurred in the work of the Kyivstar mobile operator, resulting in many services ceased to work. Oschadbank was no exception. This was reported by the Bank's press service, Hromadske reports.

It is noted that a small number of ATMs, POS terminals and informative-payment terminals of Savings Bank ceased to work. "The complete restoration of their work will take place after eliminating the service of Kyivstar's services," the message reads. Earlier, PrivatBank speaker Oleg Sergus also stated that a failure in Kyivstar would partially affect the work of some terminals and ATMs, but not for the entire network.

"For a common understanding, some of all banks, ATMs and POS terminals work on mobile cards. That is, the POS terminal has a mobile card. For those terminals that work on Kyivstar mobile maps, this problem is affected by their work, "Oleg Serg said. Also hackers staged a DDOS-Atac The virtual SIM card provided by Monobank-ESIM. In the morning of December 12, a large-scale failure in the work of the Kyivstar mobile operator was recorded. Users do not have communication and the Internet.

At first it was stated that this is a technical failure, but later representatives of Kyivstar Officially declared a hacking attack on the core of the network. The Ministry of Internal Affairs appealed to Ukrainians with an important statement about this. If necessary, Ukrainians may seek assistance to law enforcement, border guards or National Guards, since there is still no communication. Another Ukrainian operator has arisen.