Ukraine’s Top Mobile Internet Company is Down, Blames Russian Cyberattack

The CEO of Ukraine’s largest telecommunications company said Tuesday that a Russian cyberattack took down its service, severing internet access for millions across the country.

Service at the company, Kyivstar, “collapsed” Tuesday, according to NetBlocks, a company that monitors global internet outages. Both phone and internet access are down, Kyivstar said on its Facebook page.

The outage appears to be one of the largest cyberattacks against a civilian communications system to date. At the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, hackers whom analysts traced to Russia launched an attack on Viasat, a U.S. satellite internet company popular in Ukraine.

Read the rest of the story at NBC News, here.

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