He added that the figure did not include line of business computers such as cash machines. Nine days after the malicious software, sometimes called a worm, was seeded across Ukrainian companies and government agencies by a weakly secured tax software firm, officials have yet to provide a comprehensive assessment of what happened. On Wednesday, the firm behind the rogue tax software told reporters that its program had been present on 1 million machines. Earlier this week, Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan told the AP that damage at his department alone ran into the millions of dollars. Ukraine blames Russia for the attack, an allegation President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday dismissed as "absurd."

Source: ABC News July 06, 2017 08:04 UTC