Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice restores all key services of main state register after Russian cyberattack
Pravda Ukraine
Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice has restored all key services of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organisations portal on 10 January following a large-scale Russian cyberattack.
Source: Ministry of Justice on Facebook
Details: The ministry notes that the portal has resumed full functionality, allowing free access to search information in the registers, generate extracts, obtain administrative service results using access codes and provide state bodies with access to register data through access identifiers.
Background:
- On 19 December 2024, Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and Minister of Justice of Ukraine, reported that Russia had launched a cyberattack on state registers that fall under the Ministry of Justice’s competence. Their work had been temporarily suspended.
- On 19 December 2024, government officials promised that the registers would be restored in two weeks.
- On 30 December, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine resumed the operation of three key notarial registers after a Russian cyberattack.
- On 4 January 2025, the Civil Registry Office reopened, meaning that the possibility of registering marriages, births and other acts of civil status was restored after the Russian cyberattack.
- On 8 January 2025, the Ministry of Justice restored the operation of its website after a Russian cyberattack.
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