The expert assessed the threat of data leakage of Russians due to a DDoS attack on the Federal Tax Service

German Klimenko, Chairman of the Board of the Digital Economy Development Fund and founder of the LiveInternet service, said that due to the ongoing major DDoS attack on the Federal Tax Service, users are not in danger of data leakage.

In conversation with aif.ru On Tuesday, May 20, he explained that the purpose of the attack was to destabilize the server hosting the software product.

"There were times when the placement of the page and the databases coincided, and when a DDoS attack occurred, the servers could not stand it and sometimes errors surfaced there that allowed logging in. But I am sure that the FTS website has separate pages, separate databases," Klimenko said.

For more than a day, the servers of the Federal Tax Service and a number of other government services have been subjected to DDoS attacks. The attacks are being conducted from abroad, the website writes kp.ru . The increase in complaints about problems in the operation of a number of services of the Federal Tax Service of Russia to the Federal Tax Service and the Center for Monitoring and Management of the Public Communications Network (CMU SSOP) began to be recorded from 08:00 on Monday, May 19.

Roskomnadzor reported that the CMU SSOP helps to repel cyber attacks with the help of the National System for Countering DDoS Attacks, the Moscow City News Agency reports. The power of some types of attacks reaches 2 million requests per second. The volume of attacks reached 162 gigabytes per second, according to 360.ru . It will be clarified that the department's security and infrastructure management systems are operating normally, RT writes. User data is securely protected.

On May 20, Russian users complained about failures in several online services at once. These include the Gosklyuch and Honest Sign systems, as well as EMIAS, which allows you to make an appointment with doctors in Moscow, VLSI, and the Federal Tax Service website, IA Regnum notes.