Following Aeroflot, Hackers Broke Into Two Major Pharmacy Chains In Moscow

They were owned by the deputy head of the Duma health committee.

Neopharm Holding's pharmacies - Neopharm proper and Stolichki - have stopped working in Moscow and the regions, according to the companies' websites. According to the message of Stolichka, which has more than 1000 outlets in 80 cities in central Russia, at the moment drug reservations are unavailable, as well as "viewing data on the loyalty program".

"We apologize for the inconvenience, unavailable functions will be restored in the near future," the company assured.

Stolichka pharmacies are closed across Moscow due to a hacker hack, cash registers and accounting systems are not working, and employees have been sent on vacation, reports Mash.

According to the channel, the failure is expected to be eliminated in one or two days. Stolichka itself noted that the pharmacies are not working "for technical reasons." Shot, which also called the hack the reason for the closure of pharmacies, citing company representatives, reports that the network is conducting "routine work".

Stolichka pharmacies are located in cities of the Central and North-Western Federal Districts, most of them in Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as in St. Petersburg, Leningrad region, Tula, Kostroma and Vladimir.

Analogous message is posted on the website of the network Neopharm. According to the source of Readovka channel, pharmacies also stopped work because of a hacker attack on the equipment in Moscow. Employees of the chain had been released for time off the day before, the channel claims. Neopharm has over 110 pharmacies in Moscow, the Moscow region and St. Petersburg.

The two pharmacy chains (99.99% stake) were owned until July 2022 by Evgeny Nifantiev, deputy head of the Duma Committee on Health Protection, who is under international sanctions due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The assets were then transferred to the closed mutual investment fund (Zdravinvest), which can be used as a tool to protect the asset from secondary sanctions, noted CEO of analytical company DSM Group Sergei Shulyak.

The day before, hackers from the groups Cyber Partisans and Silent Crow carried out a large-scale hack of Aeroflot's systems, destroying 7,000 of the airline's servers and causing a new collapse at Moscow airports. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office confirmed that the failure in the systems of Russia's largest air carrier was caused by a hacker attack, and reported about the initiation of a case of illegal access to computer information (272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). "Cyber partisans" said that Aeroflot's system was running on outdated Windows XP, and the company's CEO, Sergei Alexandrovsky, had not changed his password since 2022.

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