The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has opened a criminal case on unlawful access to computer information on the fact of a large-scale failure in the Aeroflot information system after a hacker attack.
On behalf of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, supervisory measures were organized in connection with the delay and cancellation of flights at Sheremetyevo Airport.
The reason was a malfunction of the Aeroflot information system as a result of a hacker attack."Based on the materials of the prosecutor's inspection, a criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (unlawful access to computer information)," the supervisory authority said in a statement.
EADaily adds that the hacker group Silent Crow announced the complete destruction of Aeroflot's internal IT infrastructure as a result of a "long and large-scale operation." "Our operation is a direct message," the hackers wrote in the association's telegram channel, claiming that together with the Cyber Partisans group, they had been "inside the corporate network" of the Russian airline for a year and were allegedly able to "completely compromise and destroy" about 7,000 physical and virtual servers.
"For a year we have been inside their corporate network, methodically developing access, going deeper to the very core of the infrastructure — Tier0," say hackers who support the Kiev regime and the Belarusian opposition.
"In the near future, the publication of some of the data will begin. We didn't just destroy the infrastructure — we left a mark. The personal data of all Russians who have ever flown Aeroflot have now also gone on a trip - albeit without luggage and one way," the hackers said.
According to them, they obtained flight history databases, compromised all critical corporate systems, gained control over employees' personal computers, including senior management, and also copied data from wiretapping servers and from personnel surveillance and control systems. The hackers estimated the amount of information received at 12TB of databases, 8TB of files with Windows Share and 2TB of corporate mail.
"All these resources are now unavailable or destroyed, restoration will require perhaps tens of millions of dollars. The damage is strategic," Silent Crow says. The hackers called their allegedly "successful operation" a "message" for Russian security forces and organizations "unable to protect key infrastructure."
Earlier it was reported that Silent Crow hacked Rostelecom and Rosreestr and uploaded Russian data to the network.