By Andrei Skvarsky.
The website of the Warsaw Stock Exchange was temporarily paralysed on August 14 by a presumed hacking attack from eastern Ukrainian pro-Russia rebels, but the bourse said none of its trade had been affected.
The Polish president’s website was also inaccessible for a while the same day, Polish financial and business news website Forsal.pl said.
“We observed a temporary overload on our website last Thursday. It did not have any impact on the trading session,” stock exchange spokesman Maciej Wewior told EmergingMarkets.me in an email.
Online rebel activist group CyberBerkut claimed responsibility for blocking the two websites, slamming Poland as “one of the sponsors of Ukrainian fascism”.
“Today our CyberArmy is attacking Poland’s main political and financial Internet resources – the websites of the president of the country and the Warsaw Stock Exchange,” CyberBerkut said in a statement on August 14.
“For the fourth month running, the Kyiv junta has been perpetrating genocide against the population of the south-east of the country. The Polish state is one of the sponsors of Ukrainian fascism. By interfering in the internal affairs of another country, the Polish government endangers not only the interests but also the lives of its fellow citizens,” the group said.
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