Ukraine's state railway official says cyber attack aimed at disrupting traffic

Record ID: 1986833

  • Title: Ukraine's state railway official says cyber attack aimed at disrupting traffic
  • Date: 24th March 2025
  • Summary: KYIV, UKRAINE (MARCH 24, 2025) (UKRAINIAN POOL) (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRZALIZNYTSIA BOARD CHAIRMAN, OLEKSANDR PERTSOVSKYI, SAYING: “Operational traffic did not stop for a moment. The enemy attack was aimed to stop trains, but we quickly switched to backup systems – manual way of managing trains. The only systems that clients experience downtime with are the sales system
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  • Keywords: Russia Ukrzaliznytsia cyber attack state railway war in Ukraine
  • Location: KYIV, UKRAINE / INTERNET
  • City: KYIV, UKRAINE / INTERNET
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA003122424032025RP1
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  • Story Text: A cyber attack on Ukraine's state-owned railway company Ukrzaliznytsia over the weekend was aimed at disrupting train traffic but failed to do so, the company's board chairman said on Monday (March 27).
    "Operational traffic did not stop for a moment. The enemy attack was aimed to stop trains, but we quickly switched to backup systems," Oleksandr Pertsovskyi told national TV.
    The railway said it will sell tickets offline on Monday before back-ups are recovered after what it called a "systemic, non-trivial and multi-level" attack.
    After the Russian invasion in 2022 and the closure of airspace over Ukraine, trains became the main mode of transportation for domestic and international passengers.
    The railways carried around 20 million passengers and 148 million tonnes of freight last year, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said in December.
    The outage was first reported on Sunday when Ukrzaliznytsia notified its users about the failure in the IT system and told passengers to buy tickets on-site or on trains.
    (Production: Anna Voitenko, Taras Garanich, Andrii Pryimachenko)
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