Hackers from a group called the "BO Team" have launched a major cyberattack on Vega, a Russian internet provider. This attack has caused big problems, including cutting off internet and communication services for important places in Snezhinsk, a city in Russia known for its secretive Soviet-era facilities.

Here's what happened: The BO Team claimed responsibility for the attack and said they managed to take down over 1,170 of Vega’s network switches and 10 of its servers. They also reported that they completely wiped out all the information on these servers. Because of this, internet and communication services have been down in Snezhinsk for five days, and it's unclear when things will be fixed.

Vega is the only internet provider in Snezhinsk, and one of the city’s major enterprises, the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF), relies only on Vega for its internet. VNIITF is involved in developing nuclear weapons, and the hackers managed to get hold of se...