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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, July 28 /Xinhua/ — Aeroflot airline said on Monday that there was a failure in the airline's information systems and that the flight schedule may be adjusted, including by postponing and canceling. Aeroflot did not specify what caused the failure, how many flights it may affect, or how long it will take to return to the regular schedule.
“A team of specialists is currently working to minimize the risks of fulfilling the production flight plan and quickly restoring the normal operation of services,” Aeroflot reported.
Earlier, the company announced the cancellation of almost 50 flights.
Amid the massive disruption to the airline's operations, hacker groups Silent Crow and Cyber Partisans BY announced that they had carried out a "long-term and large-scale operation" that resulted in Aeroflot's "internal IT infrastructure being completely compromised and destroyed."
According to Kommersant newspaper, hackers claim that they were “inside the corporate network” of Aeroflot for a year. As a result, they allegedly destroyed about 7,000 servers (physical and virtual) and obtained flight history databases, compromised all critical corporate systems, gained control over personal computers of employees, including management, and “copied data from wiretapping servers” and from personnel surveillance and control systems.
The hackers estimated the volume of information obtained at 12TB of databases. “All these resources are now inaccessible or destroyed, restoration will require, possibly, tens of millions of dollars. The damage is strategic,” the newspaper quotes Silent Crow’s statement published on Telegram.
The Moscow prosecutor's office is reportedly conducting an investigation. –0–
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