Tyumen Region Today - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Tyumen Region Today, Newspaper, News website

Incident date: February 28, 2022

Attack type:

Cyber-, DDoS, and hacker attack on a media outlet

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Russia, Tyumen Oblast, Tyumen

Additional information:

Sergey Shestakov, director of the NGO Tyumen Region Today, said that the media's website had been attacked by hackers, so the editors were forced to suspend the work of the website. However, the work of the website was soon restored.

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