EU Executive’s Internet Access Temporarily Taken Down By Cyber Attack

The European Commission stopped working entirely on Thursday after there was a cyber attack on its website and servers.

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In the early afternoon of Wednesday, a detection of the first wave of a huge number of requests sent at the same time to access the Commission’s website was made. This resulted in an overload of the institution’s servers.

As a result of the attack, the commission’s staff stopped working due to lack of access to the Internet. So far, the institution has not reported whether they have discovered where the attack came from.

The European Commission announced that the attack has been dealt with successfully and there has been no information leakage. Confidential files have not been accessed

The attack happened as Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko visited Brussels to discuss visa free travel to the EU.

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