Slew of digital operations disrupted by Russian cyberattack on Diia platform
Source: Diia
Ukrainian officials admitted on Friday that several public services in the “Diia” app have been disrupted after a Russian cyberattack on Ukraine’s state registries. Specialists are already working to restore full functionality.
The compromised services include:
- Registration, amendments, and closure of sole proprietorships
- Extracts from the Unified State Register (USR)
- Registration of LLCs and transition to model statutes
- Employee reservations
- Vehicle re-registration
- Online marriage applications (excluding engagement registration)
- Civil registry entries
- Construction-related services
- Property ownership registration
- Information from the State Register of Real Property Rights (SRRPR)
- Loans for internally displaced persons (IDPs)
- Various social benefits, including disability assistance and child adoption support
- Reporting damaged or destroyed property
- Business recovery services
- Notifications of repairs
- Housing programs such as “eOselia”
- International registry of damages
- Child residency information extracts
- Change of residence registration
While experts are working to bring all services back online, Ukrainians are encouraged to follow updates through Diia’s official social media channels.
The statement also reassured that personal data has not been stored within the app, meaning it wasn’t leaked.
Deemed the largest external assault on Ukraine’s state registries, the hacking attack crippled key databases run by Ministry of Justice, an restoring operations could take up to two weeks.
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