Russia's Rosstat Struggles to Restore Systems After Major Cyberattack
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Russia's state statistics agency, Rosstat, has been hit by a cyberattack, and is still struggling to restore its systems, Bloomberg reported. The IT incident has delayed the release of several important macroeconomic reports and has also caused a number of previously published data to disappear from the organization's website.
Rosstat announced that some economic data releases may be delayed due to the impact of cyberattacks between October 29 and November 1. The agency extended the deadline for submitting primary data until November 13; weekly inflation and fuel data were released today.
Most of the statistics posted in Excel documents were not available on the website of the Federal Public Statistics Service (Rosstat) after the cyber attack. This was noticed by Verstka. The publication checked different sections. You can see the files with the data, but when you try to download them, it is reported that "The document you're looking for is not here. Use the search or return to one of the proposed pages." In addition, the news ha…
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