Fake PAP report looks like cyberattack, says gov't official
Poland's minister of digital affairs has said that a PAP report on a planned mobilisation is fake and that it resembles a cyberattack and a deliberate act of disinformation.
At around 2pm on Friday, two reports informing about a partial mobilisation in Poland, starting on July 1, 2024, were published on the PAP service. The Polish Press Agency PAP immediately announced that it had not been the source of the reports. PAP also added that the reports had neither been written nor sent out by its staff. The reports were immediately annulled.
"The PAP report on a partial mobilisation is fake. We have immediately started to explain the incident," Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said on the X platform.
"This all looks like a cyberattack and planned disinformation," Gawkowski said, adding that he would immediately inform the public about any new findings.
The minister added that "all indicates that we are dealing with a cyberattack coming from the Russian side." "Its goal is to spread disinformation before the elections (to the European Parliament - PAP) and to 'paralyse' society."
Gawkowski also said that Prime Minister Donald Tusk had been immediately informed about the hacker attack on PAP.
The minister said that the situation was being monitored by the Internal Security Agency (ABW). (PAP)
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