Redazione RHC : 30 August 2025 10:19
Participants in the cyberattack on the Moscow Electronic School were offered towork to improve cybersecurity and other digital services of the capital’s administration. This all comes after September 17, 2022, when students and teachers were unable to upload assignments, assign grades, or use services for three days due to a hacker attack.
Moscow authorities hired criminal hackers after their cyberattack on the Moscow Electronic School (MES) computer platform. writes RBC. According to Moscow Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova, the participants in the MES cyberattack have received an offer to work on improving cyber defense and other digital services of the capital’s administration in 2025. According to her, the capital’s authorities are ready to hire talent in the IT sector.
“Four young people who in previous years had almost successfully completed the task of hacking the IT platform are now working in the MES team,” the official told TASS. The Moscow Electronic School (MES) was launched by the city authorities in 2016 and is a single digital educational platform for students, teachers, and parents. MES’s main services include a library of teaching materials, an electronic diary, and a Student Portfolio.
Today, the MES library contains over 1.6 million teaching materials, from test assignments and lesson scenarios to virtual labs and exam preparation materials. Both specialized domestic developers and regular teachers can add materials.
Kommersant, close to the Moscow Department of Education and Science, confirmed that the problem affected almost all schools at the time: “The uploading of homework and grades did not work, nor did the mobile version of the services.” Subsequently, by the evening of September 20, most of the problems had been resolved.
The ESM had already experienced serious problems before 2022. In 2017, the Moscow City Department of Information Technology (DIT) had transferred the ESM to a new software.
In the fall of 2020, on the first day of distance learning in Moscow schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers had to conduct lessons via Zoom due to the heavy load on their IT infrastructure. According to cybersecurity experts, the failure would not have come as a surprise to the mayor’s office if additional cybersecurity measures and vulnerability tests had been taken in advance.
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