Restoration of state registers after Russian cyberattack continues - Stefanishyna
Kyiv • UNN
The Ministry of Justice has suspended the work of state registries due to a large-scale cyberattack by Russia. Registration of civil status acts continues in paper format, and the restoration of the systems may take up to two weeks.
Following the largest-scale cyberattack on state registries by Russians, the Ministry of Justice has decided to suspend all registries to avoid further threats.
This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, Minister of Justice Olha Stefanishyna during a briefing, UNN correspondent reports.
Details
At this stage, actions are underway to restore the registers. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the events related to the Ministry of Justice registry did not affect other state information systems, including the Diia application, which is not functioning in the part related to data from the Ministry of Justice registries
Olga Stefanishyna also added that there are currently no restrictions on citizens' access to rights related to civil registration. All acts of civil status on birth, death, marriage, and divorce can be performed in the usual manner, but in paper form.
Within the next hour, the official Facebook page of the Ministry of Justice will post information about the civil registry offices that can be contacted throughout Ukraine to take appropriate actions
Recall
Hostile hackers have carried out one of the largest cyberattacks on Ukraine's state registries. The Ministry of Justice is working to restore access to critical systems, which may take up to two weeks.
