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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Ukraine Security Service blames Russia for recent cyberattack

Published July 1, 2017 at 2:08 pm

People try to enter a closed branch of Oshchadbank on June 27, in Kyiv. Wave of cyberattacks that began in Russia and Ukraine on June 27 was wreaking havoc on government and corporate computer systems as it spread to Western Europe and across the Atlantic.

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Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) says that the Russian security services were involved in a recent cyberattack that hit Ukraine.

The SBU said on its website on July 1 that the cyberattack, which started in Ukraine and spread around the world on June 27, aimed to destroy important data and spread panic.