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Cz: National library reports outage due to cyberattack

Posted on May 20, 2021 by chum1ng0

Last month, DataBreaches.net reported an attack on the municipality of Olomouc in the Czech Republic. This month, we report an attack on Národní knihovna ČR, the national library of the Czech Republic.

CTK of iDNES reports that it was the target of an overnight cyber attack. Threat actors:

attacked the lending system. After the attack was detected, the library shut down key systems. Resumption of traffic cannot be predicted, the library said. In the afternoon, library spokeswoman Irena Mařáková specified that some digital databases are functioning. (machine translated)

National Library
National Library: Credit: BrunoDelzant, Wikipedia

In an update earlier today, the library posted the following on its Twitter account:

Z důvodu výpadku IT technologií dočasně nefunguje také služba CIP-Katalogizace v knize. Připomínáme, že nefungují emaily všech zaměstnanců a služeb Národní knihovny.

Děkujeme za pochopení a omlouváme se za případné komplikace.

— Národní knihovna ČR (@narodniknihovna) May 20, 2021

Z důvodu výpadku IT technologií dočasně nefunguje také služba CIP-Katalogizace v knize. Připomínáme, že nefungují emaily všech zaměstnanců a služeb Národní knihovny.

Děkujeme za pochopení a omlouváme se za případné komplikace.

Translation:

“Due to an IT outage, the CIP-Cataloguing in Books service is temporarily down. Please note that the emails of all National Library staff and services are not working.Thank you for your understanding and we apologize for any complications.”

The library has not stated whether this was a ransomware incident or some other type of incident.

This post will be updated if more details become available.


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