Poland blames Russian hackers for cyberattack on tax service website

Poland’s tax service website was hit by a cyberattack believed to have been carried out by Russian hackers, according to the country’s top cybersecurity official. 

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurred on Tuesday, causing the website to crash for approximately one hour and blocking users’ access to the online tax filing system.

In an interview Wednesday with Polish news channel Polsat News, Secretary of State at the Government Plenipotentiary for Cyber Security Janusz Cieszynski blamed the attack on Russia. “We …

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