Peskov: Hackers are not hackers, but all this is alarming with Aeroflot

Reports of attacks on Aeroflot servers by hacker groups are quite alarming. This was announced today, July 28, by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the statements of the Ukrainian-Belarusian group of hackers on the infrastructure of the Russian company.

"This is the information that we read in the public domain, it is quite alarming," Peskov told reporters.

As EADaily reported, Aeroflot canceled seven more round-trip flights at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport amid a failure in information systems. The responsibility for the failure was assumed by the Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow. According to the hackers, they had been inside the corporate network for more than a year, uploading flight history and preparing sabotage. It was announced about the destruction of about 7 thousand physical and virtual servers, as well as the receipt of 20 TB of data — from corporate mail to internal documents.