Prague 5: The town hall has been attacked by hackers, it has not been working for several days
“At night, Prague 5 became the target of a cyber attack. At the moment, all workplaces of the district office are out of operation. We are working hard to eliminate the consequences of the attack, “said the city district.
Cyber attack
According to spokeswoman Marie Kurková, Prague 9 also recorded attacks.The Prague 9 office recorded cyber attacks, so far it has been prepared for them“She said. Richard Bureš (ODS), the councilor of the first city district, also mentioned problems of a similar nature at Tuesday’s meeting of the Prague 1 City Council.
Other addressed town halls did not record the attacks. “At this time we have no information about any non-standard system behavior, however, we have increased the inspection, including backup. We are in contact with other IT staff in other parts of Prague to analyze the situation, we have also informed the office staff to be careful when working with incoming emails, “said Josef Slobodník (ODS), Chairman of the Prague 8 Informatics Committee.
Similarly, the spokesperson of Prague 2, Andrea Zoulová, also provides. “We know about the risk, the employees of the district office were instructed and invited to maximum caution when using electronic communication. Our IT staff is also in contact with colleagues from other town halls and works closely with the Prague 5 town hall in particular, ”she said. Prague 6 spokesman Jiří Hannich stated that the sixth city district had not seen any noticeable attack recently.
Prague 5 still out of order
The Prague 5 office, which has been facing a cyber attack since the night of Tuesday, has electronic systems are still decommissioned and largely out of order. The mayor of the city district, Renáta Zajíčková (ODS), filed a criminal complaint against an unknown perpetrator due to the attack. City Hall spokeswoman Lenka Abessi told ČTK.
“Due to investigation of the Police of the Czech Republic “more information cannot be provided now,” the spokeswoman said. She added that all of the office’s agendas, which require the use of computer technology, are currently out of order. For example, people cannot apply for new documents or collect them. “When it comes to applications for documents, we refer to other parts of the city,” Abessi said.
The city district on the site as well published a list of currently at least partially functional agendas and contactson which people can obtain information from the various departments of the Office.
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The Municipal Office of Prague 5 was out of operation due to a cyber attack
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