Vatican website is taken offline in a suspected hacker attack - a day after Moscow attacked Pope Francis for condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine
The official Vatican website was taken offline on Wednesday following an apparent hacking attack, the Holy See said.
'Technical investigations are ongoing due to abnormal attempts to access the site,' Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said, without giving any further information.
The suspected hack came a day after Moscow criticised Pope Francis's latest condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In an interview with a Jesuit magazine, the Pope had singled out troops from Chechnya and other ethnic minorities in Russia for their particular 'cruelty' during the war.
The Vatican's website was taken down by a cyber attack on Tuesday morning and could not be accessed
He also said Ukrianians were a 'martyred people'.
However, the source of the attack remains unknown, but it is not the first time the Catholic Church has been targeted.
In 2015, a Turkish hacker took credit for an attack on the Vatican's website after Pope ..
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