On April 25, the head of the department Alexander Kubrakov announced the attack on the ministry, confirming the fact of hacking. A day later, information security specialists failed to eliminate the consequences of the attack. Earlier, anonymous hackers published internal documents of the department, as well as footage from a CCTV camera from the server room, in which a technical specialist of the department is trying to cope with a cyber incident..

According to the head of the information technology department of the department Ruslan Yakovlev, the ministry currently employs CERT-UA specialists of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.

According to their preliminary assessment, the operation of the ministry’s domain system, including on the GigaCloud cloud platform, was disrupted, electronic services for working with the population (more than 100 servers) were irretrievably destroyed, all service information was encrypted on more than 1,500 employees’ computers, and more than 300 terabytes of backup.

In addition, secure communication systems with regional offices of the ministry and state services for electronic document management were violated.. The website of the ministry is still unavailable at present..

Responsibility for the attack on the network infrastructure of the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine was claimed by hackers from the Solntsepek group.