Ukraine restores marriage registers, improves mobilisation deferral after Russian large-scale cyberattack

The State Register of Civil Status Acts has been launched in the Ministry of Justice's system of state registers. The possibility of registering marriages, births, and other acts of civil status has been restored after the Russian cyberattack on Ukraine's state registers.

Source: Ministry of Justice of Ukraine

Details: Another register, the State Register of Civil Status Acts, started operations on 4 January after being subjected to a large-scale Russian cyberattack. Civil registry offices have recovered the power to record births, marriages, divorces, name changes, and deaths.

Data exchange with other government institutions, such as the State Tax Service of Ukraine, the Pension Fund of Ukraine, and the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, will commence on 5 January.

In addition, on 5 January, a number of online services available in Diia, Ukraine's e-government app, will also start working.

Parents of three children under 18 will again be able to apply for a deferral from mobilisation.

Background: 

• On 20 December, Ukraine experienced the largest cyberattack on state registers on record.
• The attack, carried out by Russian hackers, temporarily suspended the operation of key systems of Ukraine's Ministry of Justice.
• The hackers claimed to have destroyed all the data they had gained access to, including backup copies stored on servers in Poland.
• The largest cyberattack on Ukraine's state registers in recent years had been months in the making. However, the Security Service of Ukraine stated it could not reveal details about how Russia had planned the operation.
• Ukraine's State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection did not confirm any leak of information following the Russian cyberattack.
• The recovery of the Ministry of Justice registers that were cyberattacked will take one to two weeks, based on early data from experts.
• Diia, Ukraine's e-government app, resumed the process of exempting employees from military service following a large-scale Russian cyberattack. 

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