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Air raid alert in Russia – Russian authorities announce hacker attack

22 February, 2023 Wednesday
12:47

Several Russian radio stations servers were hacked: they broadcast an air raid alert and a message about missile attack threat 

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This is reported by the Russian mass media.

In the morning of February 22, radio stations of Pyatigorsk, Tyumen, Voronezh, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Magnitogorsk, Belgorod, Stary Oskol, Ufa and Novouralsk broadcast air raid alarm.

The message "Attention, air raid alert is announced. Take shelter immediately. Attention, attention, the threat of a missile attack" was broadcast on Relax FM, Avtoradio, Humor FM, and Comedy radio.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations stated that the radio station servers were hacked.

"Air raid alert on Russian radio stations is not true, there was a hacker attack," their message said.

The authorities of the Voronezh region also reported that the attack was carried out by "assistants of the Kyiv regime".

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