I have no idea what they want and what they took. How many years they have been doing this, is there anything new? Of course, the cyber-attack was carried out by Russia, - Paata Imnadze, Deputy Director General of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, told ambebi.ge when commenting on the reports of unauthorized access to the Lugar Laboratory database.

"What secret would they see? They create fake things themselves to convince others. Is anything new in all this? We are accustomed to all kinds of attacks - propaganda, cyber attack, etc. We have nothing to hide, so they did it in vain," said Paata Imnadze.

The Division Combating Cyber Crime of the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has launched an investigation on the fact of unauthorized access to the computer system of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at this stage, the investigation has established that: “On September 1, 2020, a cyber-attack from one of the foreign countries was carried out on the computer system of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia. The attack was aimed at illegal appropriation and use of important medical records and pandemic management information stored in the databases of the central office of the Ministry, its structural units, including the Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research of the National Agency for Disease Control and Public Health.

Part of the authentic documents obtained as a result of illegal access to computer system are currently being uploaded to one of the foreign websites and are available to the mass users. In addition, the website uploads obviously falsified documents, which are deliberately falsified in order to intimidate, confuse and distrust the public.

According to the evidences obtained at this stage, the cyber-attack was carried out by one of the foreign special services”.

source: IPN