“MegaFon” has restored the services to the customer support after attacks
MOSCOW, may 12 — RIA Novosti. “MegaFon” has restored the services to the customer support after hacker attacks and working to restore the remaining services, reported RIA Novosti Director of public relations of the company Peter Lidov.
“We have, like around the world, today, in the office in Moscow, we discovered that many computers almost simultaneously, there was a warning that “pay $ 300, or we’ll wipe”. It’s all pretty spread rapidly, and quickly had to take significant measures,” he said.
“For some time blocked the work of call-center operators, they couldn’t turn their computers in retail outlets had problems. So we were forced inside our network partially disable the entire network to ensure that the virus does not spread,” added Lead.
Currently, according to him, the operator has fully restored the service to the customer support and was working to normalize the rest of the staff. He noted that the company “is in touch with law enforcement” for this reason.
“Material damage from cyber-attacks is not. The only thing this has created inconvenience for customers,” — concluded the representative of “MegaFon”.