{"id":185857,"date":"2023-09-22T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=185857"},"modified":"2023-09-22T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:14:20","slug":"bermuda-government-hit-by-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bermuda-government-hit-by-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Bermuda government hit by cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CMC – <\/span>The Bermuda government has acknowledged that it is experiencing \u201csome challenges\u201d with its information technology (IT) system and is pointing an accusing finger at Russia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cThere has been an incident, which is affecting not only the Bermuda government but some other regional governments as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur initial indication is it\u2019s come from an external source, most likely from Russia, and we are working with agencies to make sure that we can identify any particular challenges and make sure that services are restored as quickly as possible,\u201d Premier David Burt has said.<\/p>

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Burt said that while the government is in the early stages of confirming what happened on Thursday afternoon, no digital information had been lost.<\/p>

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The incident led to Thursday\u2019s postponement of the sitting of the House of Assembly.<\/p>\n

The government had earlier advised the public that its telephone, internet and e-mail systems were disrupted and that all departments were affected.<\/p>

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The Bermuda Police Service \u00a0(BPS) said that its services were functioning and that emergency and non-emergency telephone numbers were operating as usual.<\/p>\n

Premier Burt said that various teams were working with \u201clocal partners, engaging all hands, overseas partners and there may be a need to engage further\u201d to establish the source of the incident.<\/p>

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He said the Minister of Tourism and the Cabinet Office, Vance Campbell, who oversees IT, would be able to provide an update \u201cas things become clearer.<\/p>

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\u201cWhat we are focused on right now is just making sure that we identify any challenges. It does not at this point in time appear that any data has been taken, so that\u2019s at this point in time but it does appear that systems are affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to identify which systems are affected, which ones are not so that we can return to servicing persons, so people at TCD, people at immigration et cetera, can get the government services which they rely on.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the Ministry of National Security will be consulting with external agencies, adding \u201cwe do know at least one other country that has been affected; suspected on the same level of attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been significant investment that has been made recently to improve government security, recognising and understanding that we\u2019ve been moving many items over to the cloud.<\/p>\n

\u201cCloud services have not been affected.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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