Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) Scores of Ukrainian government websites were targeted in a cyberattack with threatening text warning Ukrainians to "be afraid and wait for the worst" and alleging their personal information has been hacked. Ukraine claimed Russia was most likely behind the attack, which affected the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other government agencies. Ukraine's communication intelligence service said in a statement that as many as 70 central and regional authority websites were targeted. Early Friday morning local time, Ukrainian government websites, including that of the Foreign Ministry, displayed dark screens with a threatening text that said Ukrainians' personal information had been hacked. All data on the computer is destroyed, it is impossible to restore them," the message, published in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish, read.

Source: CNN January 15, 2022 05:25 UTC