Hacker attack blacks out BBC website
AFP
Hackers brought down the BBCs websites for several hours yesterday in a large-scale hacking attack, the British public broadcaster reported, reports AFP from London.
Sources within the BBC said the sites were offline thanks to what is known as a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, the BBC reported.
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 blamed the problem on a technical issue.
Were aware of a technical issue affecting the BBC website and are working to fix this now, it said in a statement.
Despite continued problems with access to the sites, it said in a later update: The BBC website is now back up and operating normally.
The BBCs 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.
