Kyivstar’s virtual IT infrastructure is partially destroyed by hackers: the timeframe for restoring communication is still unknown
Kyivstar is currently unable to provide a timeframe for the mobile operator to resume full operations after the hacker attack.
This was announced by Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov.
According to him, the company itself did not provide information about the launch in 4-5 hours.
“It was a very powerful hacker attack on the company’s virtual infrastructure, and the IT infrastructure was partially destroyed. We are still working out how long it will take to recover, so we have not yet made any statements,” Komarov said.
He clarified that “damage to the IT infrastructure” means the loss of access to the company’s systems, because the entire “perimeter, which is protected by the directory in which all rights are registered, has been completely destroyed.” That’s why specialists now have to work at the physical level, “connecting conditionally through patch codes to each element of the network” to assess the level of its destruction.
According to him, today’s attack is one of the components of the war that Ukraine has been in for almost two years.
“This is a war, and it is taking place not only on the battlefield but also in cyberspace. In fact, it is a penetration into the infrastructure and its destruction. The main goal of this attack is to destroy the virtual IT infrastructure of the operator as much as possible,” emphasized the CEO of Kyivstar.
- A large-scale technical failure in the Kyivstar network occurred in the morning of December 12. The company said that its specialists are already working to fix the problem. At the same time, Kyivstar subscribers cannot switch to other operators via national roaming, as “Kyivstar’s network cannot transfer information about its subscribers to other operators’ networks.” The outage was caused by a hacker attack.
