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The US Consulate General in Milan confirmed the cyberattack on the diplomatic mission's Twitter account

2/27/2023, 11:35:01 AM

The Twitter account of the US Consulate General in Milan was subjected to a cyberattack by unknown hackers, the problem was resolved.


“Our Twitter account has been hacked in the past few hours by unknown individuals who have unauthorizedly altered its content,” US diplomats said in a statement.

The problem was quickly eliminated, experts establish the causes of the incident.

Earlier, US President Joe Biden instructed the US Department of Transportation to conduct a full investigation into a failure in the pilot warning system that occurred the day before.

As it turned out, the preliminary cause of the failure in the system was a damaged file in the database.