Some 15,000 websites in Georgia were hacked in a massive cyberattack on Oct. 28, said the Proservice company, a web hosting provider for the country’s government agencies, private sector, and media organizations.
Most of the websites targeted in the attack are already back in operation, the company said. All of the remaining affected websites are expected to be put back online before the end of the day.
The Georgian Interior Ministry, which has opened an investigation into the cyberattack, has already interviewed several people. The ministry, however, has not yet established where the hacking attack originated from and who stands behind it.
According to earlier reports, a cyberattack had affected the Georgian presidential website and the websites of the mayor’s offices in the country’s cities, local authorities, and several television companies, which are still operating in emergency mode.
Georgian experts believe that the objective of the cyberattack was to obtain some specific information from certain websites. They also do not rule out that former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili could be behind the hacking attack as website home pages were replaced with an image of Saakashvili and the caption “I’ll be back”.
