Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom said Russian-based hackers launched a major three-hour attack on its website but had not caused significant problems.
“The Russian group ‘People’s Cyber Army’ carried out a cyber attack using 7.25 million bot users, who simulated hundreds of millions of views of the company’s main page,” Energoatom said in a statement on Tuesday.
The cyberattack came as tensions erupt over the Zaporizhzhia power plant in the south of the country, which Russian forces occupied in March, shortly after invading its neighbour.
Both the conflict nations throw the blames on each other for shelling the nuclear installation, which is the largest in Europe, sparking fears of a nuclear accident.
