Hackers bring down the BBC’s websites for several hours in a large-scale cyber-attack, the British public broadcaster reports.
“Sources within the BBC said the sites were offline thanks to what is known as a ‘distributed denial of service’ (DDOS) attack,” the BBC reports.
Users trying to access BBC.com and related websites could only see an error message saying: “The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy.”
The BBC press office blames the problem on a “technical issue.”
Illustrative: a computer (Pexels)
“We’re aware of a technical issue affecting the BBC website and are working to fix this now,” it says in a statement.
The BBC website is now back up and operating normally.
The BBC’s international website BBC.com and its news app reached a readership of more than 101 million unique browsers a month earlier this year.
DDOS attacks are used to slow down or disable a network by flooding it with communication requests.
— AFP
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