Happy Birthday Vlad: Hacker attack disrupts Russian state media on Putin's birthday


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Hacker attack disrupts Russian state media on Putin's birthday 
MOSCOW, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Russian state media company VGTRK, which owns and operates the country's main national TV stations, was targeted in a massive cyberattack on Monday that a Ukrainian government source said Kyiv's hackers had caused. The website of VGTRK, the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, was not loading early on Monday and its Rossiya-24 rolling 24-hours news channel was not available online.503 Service Unavailable. No server is available to handle this request," read an error message when Reuters reporters tried to access the livestream. "Our state media holding, one of the largest, has faced an unprecedented hacker attack on its digital infrastructure," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, saying VGTRK was working to overcome the consequences. "Specialists are working to find out all the circumstances, to understand where the traces left behind by those who organised this hacker attack on the critical infrastructure object lead." VGTRK, which said earlier on Monday that its online service had come under cyberattack overnight and whose news channels provide many Russians with news on the war in Ukraine, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. A Ukrainian government source said Ukrainian hackers were responsible for the incident, which coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday. "Ukrainian hackers 'congratulated' Putin on his birthday by carrying out a large-scale attack on the all-Russian state television and radio broadcasting company," the source told Reuters, asking not to be named. Source

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