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Western officials say the Russian government is a global leader
in hacking and uses cyber-espionage against foreign governments.
Moscow has consistently denied that it carries out hacking
operations.
"Russians are responsible for yesterday's attack, it must be
made clear. We have information that makes it very likely that
this was the adversary," Janusz Cieszynski, an official
responsible for digitalisation, told broadcaster Polsat News.
The Russian embassy in Warsaw said in an emailed response
reqeuesting comment that it is "already used to the fact that in
the West you can now accuse Russia of anything without evidence.
This is another such case in the well-known style of saying it
is 'highly likely'".
Cieszynski said the attack had consisted of distributed denial
of service but that there had been no leaking of taxpayers'
data.
"This is an attack that blocks access to the site, but does not
block security and put our data at risk," he said.
(Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk; editing by Tomasz
Janowski and Gareth Jones)
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