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Cheers for clearing that up - was wondering if/how hackers really could take down the entire Russian aviation sector, seems to be emails / registration data & the website.
From avaition24.be
"A powerful and effective cyberattack on the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) infrastructure that took place on Saturday morning has erased all documents, files, aircraft registration data and mails from the servers. In total, about 65 terabytes of data was erased. The news became known on Monday morning, the agency’s official website (favt.ru) went also down.
It's interesting though, I wonder how many bedroom hackers are actively trying to interfere with Russian services & how much inconvenience they could poetntially cause.
mcJ78
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Depends on the systems they accessed. If it's, say, licensing databases or other administrative functions then it'll be massively inconvenient, but not an immediate impediment to flight operations. If it was the Flight Data Processing System, then everything's staying on the ground for hours/days. Flight Radar 24 shows lots of aviation occurring over Russia, so I'm guessing it wasn't something as critical as that.