Moscow, December 8, 2015, 10:29 – REGNUM User access to the site “Russian Post” was restricted on the eve of 8:00 and 13:00. The measure adopted in connection with the fact that on the night of 6 December 7 hackers exposed resource DDos-attack. This was reported in the press service of the company.
IA REGNUM recalls, DDoS attack – type of attack Internet intruders, during which a large number of computers, which are also often contaminated viruses against the attacked resource requests are sent. Unable to cope with the huge number of requests, the site goes down.
So, for five hours, users could not check where their parcel, make transfers or browse information on the site is also not possible. However, other related electronic postal services operated in the normal mode.
The press service of “Russian Post” reported that the personal data during the hacker attack is not affected, only the attackers damaged the outer contour of the protection of the new site.
The company also explained that the DDos-attack is the last two years one of the most powerful attempt to bring down the work of the national postal operator of the resource. Internet hacking was carried out in an attempt to destabilize the website January 2014, on the eve of the Olympic Games in Sochi.
According to the incident the press service noted on December 7: «Currently, takes all necessary measures to meet the challenges of establishing the source of the attack on the portal” Mail of Russia “held specialized units of law enforcement agencies.”
Today, December 8, work life restored. And in order to neutralize all the consequences of the attack, experts take “all necessary measures”. However, in the “Mail of Russia” says that the site can be made and re-attack.
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