Cycling in Kyivstar influenced the terminals and ATMs: which banks were affected by cyberattacks

The hacker attack on the mobile operator affected the banking sector. Difficulties with calculations for purchases in stores, pharmacies and gas stations were felt by clients of PrivatBank and Oschadbank. The focus found out how much cyberattack threatens financial institutions and whether to run with money. Kyivstar mobile operator in the daytime, December 12, was a powerful hacker attack. Subscribers have disappeared access to telephone and Internet.

Seo of the company Alexander Komarov declared significant damage to IT infrastructure. The scale of the damage is serious, no one knows how much time it takes to recover. According to Forbes magazine, hackers broke some of the internal systems of the operator. Security and employees of the company to localize the activity of contaminated systems were disconnected. "Work is underway to launch duplicate systems," the interlocutors say.

Due to the situation with the mobile operator, there were complaints of customers of some banks about failure of payment systems. However, according to Oleg Sergi, Privatbank Prescribe, there were no major problems in the financial institution. "All services work steadily. Kyivstar interruptions have only affected the mobile device device," said Focus expert. Kyivstar operator is required for a maximum of 5% of Privatbank ATMs, and now these devices do not work.

As for self -service terminals, which replenish the account and make payments - no more than 10% work at mobile communication. About 30% of the payment terminals, which are calculated by the card for purchases in stores, pharmacies, gas stations and other places, also do not work. "These terminals will not be able to serve payments before the operator's mobile communication is restored. The devices will automatically work after solving technical problems," says Serg.

Prautbank branches, 95% of ATMs and terminals operate without interruptions. Customers can contact the bank and without mobile communications, he assured. In addition to "Privat", due to the lack of communication, some ATMs, self-service terminals and POS terminals "Savings Bank" may not work, said the Focus of the Financial Institution, Leonid Zaibrev. "Our partners from Kyivstar are working to solve technical issues. Despite this, all services not related to Kyivstar work stable.

", - said the company. The electronic payment system, the site, the hotline and the internal computer network of the National Bank of Ukraine are operating in full -time mode. The failure of the NBU did not affect the largest communication operator "Kyivstar", the regulator was told in the press service. State Ukreximbank also stated that the operator's failure did not affect its functioning.

It should be noted that the SBU's cyberfactors help the Kyivstar employees to restore the network work faster. The special service spoke focus about the opening of criminal proceedings under the eight articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The SBU investigators check the version of involvement in the hacker attack of the special service of Russia. We will remind, the failure in the work of the mobile network "Kyivstar" did not affect the work of the Ukrainian military.