BBC Confirms Its Websites Were Taken Down

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    The BBC's online services, including its news website and iPlayer catch-up TV platform, were taken down on Thursday by a large Web attack, the British broadcaster reported.

    The BBC's sites, which rank only behind Google and Facebook in visitor numbers in Britain, according to Internet analytics firm comScore, were hit from 0700 GMT, with many users receiving an error message rather than content.

    The broadcaster itself reported it had been hit by a "distributed denial of service (DDoS)" attack, citing sources within the organisation.

    http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/bbc-confirms-its-websites-were-taken-down-784403
     
    Sefie, Dec 31, 2015
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    Wow..ranked third in line is a huge thing! Hopefully they can get it restored as soon as possible and find out the culprit for the attack.
     
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    Yeah, I wonder who would attack them? They are one of the most reliable news sources, I've been getting my news from there since I was really young :)
     
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