Cyber attacks affect some radiation checks at Ukraine's Chernobyl site


  • World
  • Wednesday, 28 Jun 2017

KIEV (Reuters) - Some radiation checks at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine were being carried out manually on Tuesday after a wave of cyber attacks that hit Ukrainian institutions affected operations there, a state agency said.

"Due to the temporary disconnection of Windows systems, radiation monitoring of the industrial site is being carried out manually," the state agency that oversees the Chernobyl exclusion zone said in a statement.

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