Information security in the courts

2022: Hacking the sites of Russian arbitration courts

March 16, 2022 it became known about the hacking of the sites of Russian arbitration courts, as a result of which they stopped downloading. The representative of the Arbitration Court of the Amur Region Elena Gorlova told Interfax about the incident.

The title pages of the sites were hacked, this did not affect the trial workflow. The file cabinet is in working condition. This situation in many regions, in the Far East, as far as I know, will not affect the site of Kamchatka, "she said.

It is noted that sites in the Far East, Siberia, the Urals and other regions are inaccessible. At the same time, at least the sites of the Arbitration Courts of the Kamchatka, Trans-Baikal Territories, the Republics of Buryatia and Khakassia, and the Irkutsk Region continue to operate.^[1]

According to RBC, at about 5:00 Moscow time on March 16, 2022, information on the main pages of the sites was unavailable, and instead of data, the attackers posted a message with obscene expressions to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russians in connection with a special operation in Ukraine. The sites of the arbitration courts of Moscow, Primorye and other regions were also attacked.

Hackers hacked the websites of Russian arbitration courts and now they are unavailable

At 9:30, sites in Moscow and the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, as well as in the Far East, Siberia, the Urals and other regions are unavailable.

According to RIA Novosti, the press secretary of the Arbitration Court of Primorsky Krai Inga Sorokina told reporters that all the websites of arbitration courts are on a single Moscow platform. The hacker attack, she said, affected all pages, experts restore access.

Since the courts of general jurisdiction are on a different platform, they were not affected by the hacker attack, "Sorokina told the agency.

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