"Prepare the Office's Office": Russian hackers showed the results of the attack on "Kyivstar"

The Russians assure that they have penetrated the cloud storage and destroyed all the operator's data thanks to the accomplice of Kyivstar. The Russian Hacker group "Solnicechec" has taken responsibility for the breakdown of the system of the Kyivstar mobile operator in the results of the attack, which took place on December 12. The attackers wrote about the details of the Telegram, attaching the screenshots as evidence.

Russian hackers indicated that they had penetrated the Kyivstar system and completely destroyed 10 thousand computers, 4 thousand servers, cloud service and backup. The purpose of the attackers was the task of harming the company, which provides communications of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, state bodies, law enforcement agencies. In conclusion, they explained that they had a accomplice among Kyivstar workers and threatened that they would be proceeding.

"The rest of the offices that help the Armed Forces, prepare!" - it is a post. The screenshots published by hackers can see system information from Kyivstar computers. It is also evident that the attackers really got to the place of storage of the databases. Andriy Baranovich from the Ukrainian Cyber ​​Alliance in the RUH8 Telegram channel commented on the publication of the Solnicetek group. On December 12, Baranovich doubted that Kyivstar really took place.

However, on December 13, the expert acknowledged that the mobile operator's system was really "hacking". Having studied the scripts, posted by the attackers, Baranovich noted the low level of protection of computers and databases of the Ukrainian company. "Safety is not bad or very bad, it simply is gone and never was," he wrote. It should be noted that the failure of the mobile operator "Kyivstar" became known in the morning of December 12.

The company's clients have noted that they cannot use mobile communications and services provided by the company. The operator's representative confirmed that there was a technical failure and assured that he would try to correct him as soon as possible. Citizens were informed that they could use national roaming - that is, to connect to the networks of other operators, but it was not all right here.

Later it became known that the company was injured from a hacker attack - the media told the media with reference to its own sources. Subsequently, the company confirmed the cyberattack and stated that it would try to compensate the customers due to the failure of the system. She also appreciated how long the recovery will take: first they talked about a few hours, then military expert Sergei Narbrynov reported a few days.