The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to reports that their website was hacked
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s website is operating normally and has not been compromised. The message from the TV channel CNN about the alleged hack was in reference to the old website, which is no longer in use. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reported about this on October 23, 2016, TASS news agency reported.
“The Russian Foreign Ministry’s website, which CNN reported had been hacked, worked and works normally. The website is subject to regular attacks, which have significantly increased since 2013. We are talking about the old site, which is no longer in use,” Zakharova said.
She added that experts now understand what happened. “If one establishes that there was a hack, even if it was of a non-functioning website, by the Americans, that is bad enough because either a cyber-machine of destruction was used, that Biden and McFaul talked about, or this provocative election campaign in the United States brought the people to such a state that they have begun to destroy everything in their path,” she added.
Zakharova noted that before the publication of the reports on the hack, CNN did not reach out to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for confirmation of the information.
As was previously reported, CNN reported that an American hacker, who calls himself the Jester, announced he had hacked the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to a hacker attack by the Russian Federation on American targets.