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Slovak PM accuses Ukraine — without any evidence — of involvement in alleged “massive cyberattack”

Posted on January 25, 2025January 25, 2025 by Dissent

Oleh Pavliuk and Yevhen Kizilov report:

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said that Slovakia’s national insurance company has suffered a “massive cyberattack” and claimed, without any evidence, that Ukraine was involved.

Source: European Pravda with reference to Dennik N

Details: At an emergency press conference on Friday, 24 January, Fico said the cyberattack had started at noon and was aimed at obtaining “confidential information about diagnoses”.

Quote: “If successful, this would make it impossible to provide medical care in Slovakia. As of now, we are successfully repelling the attack, but we cannot fully assess what will happen in the next few minutes and hours,” he added.

Read more at Pravda.ua.

Ukraine responds

As reported in the Kyiv Independent:

The Foreign Ministry denied Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s claim that Ukraine is connected to a cyberattack on Slovakia’s national insurance company, according to a statement on the Ministry’s website on Jan. 24.

“We categorically reject the hints of Ukraine’s involvement in the cyberattack against a health insurance company in Slovakia,” the statement said.

The Ministry also called on Fico to stop portraying Ukraine as an enemy.

“We once again call on the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, to stop looking for imaginary enemies in Ukraine, which is friendly to Slovakia and the Slovak people.”

Read more at Kyiv Independent.

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