Time to prepare
At least they know in advance that they can't handle realistic levels of people checking, so they can upgrade before/if anything real happens in the future.
This story was updated to correct the name of the researcher. Reports last week of a coordinated attack on websites that provide Russians with advance notice of nuclear accidents appear to be unfounded, a security researcher says. Instead, he says an outage of the emergency information system likely collapsed under a crush of …
Russian citizens are sensitive to this. Maintaining access to live radiation level readings is Russian law. That law was made to help prevent another Soviet-style cover-up like that of the the 1975 leak. Any lack of data can be seen as a cover-up and possible violation of this law and its mandate.
It seems that instead of covering up a real leak, they are covering up the fact that there was simple failure of the systems for which they're responsible. The officials still maintain that it was a coordinated hacker attack.
Paris, because the Handicam Niteshot mode makes her glow like spent fuel rods.