Details of the cyber attack on the PO. Grabic: An email box has been taken over

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Jan Grabić described in “Guest of Events”, how the cyber attack on the systems of the PO and the staff of Trzaskovsky went

– The cyber attack was that 1 of the employees' email boxes was seized. And by this they tried to make false news – said Jan Grabić, in the “Guest of Events”, erstwhile asked how they tried to access the information systems of the Civic Platform and the staff of Rafał Trzaskowski. Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk notified the event.

As Jan Grabić said in “Guest of Events”, it was an attack on servers Citizens' Platform and staff Rafał TrzaskowskiNot the government servers. – He was detected by the IT specialists of the Platform, but was reported to the services and NASK (scientific and Academic Computer Network – ed.) according to procedures," he added in an interview with Piotr Witwicki.

Head of KPRM indicated that it had been established that There was an effort to infect respective computers. – from accounting services to staff. – And trying to take control of computers with a Trojan horse. This was expected to enable us to follow what was going on, but besides to make content and transfer it further – he supplemented it.

Cyber attack on PO. "Test to make false message"

Grabic described the cyber attack. – It was that was intercepted by an email box from 1 of the employees. And that's what they tried to generate. false message. For what I know, this correspondence has not been opened, there was no infection – he assured.

As he added, the attack continued in the evening, in the night and in the last fewer hours.

SEE: Donald Tusk: Cyberattack on PO systems. There's been interference in the election.

– We're after the investigation and we know that the origin of these activities is linked to the east operational groups, which are controlled by the peculiar services," said Grabic.

Donald Tusk about the attack. "A abroad interference in elections has begun"

The Prime Minister informed about the attack on the Civic Platform's IT systems on Wednesday after 5:00 p.m. "Cyberats on Platform IT system. unusual interference in elections began," he wrote Donald Tusk on social media.

As the Prime Minister added, the service indicate ‘Eastern footprint’ the IT activities.

He besides referred to the case Minister of Digitalism, Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski. "State services are working intensively in connection with the cybersecurity incidental concerning PO. The substance is serious and we will keep all the details informed," he added.