The restoration of the website and mobile application is being carried out by specialists from the energy company Hydro-Québec, the company said on April 13, writes the National Observer.
According to the company, the denial of service attack took place around 3 am local time. It is highlighted that the company’s critical systems were not affected.
“It did not affect our production, transmission and distribution of electricity”— said company representative Francis Labbe, noting that personal data was not compromised.
According to a company representative, the pro-Russian hacker group NoName057 claimed responsibility for the cyberattack (16).
“We saw a tweet from an organization that wanted to claim responsibility for this attack.Labbe said. — We will focus on getting everything back to normal and then we will make our requests.”
Source: Rossa Primavera
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