The BBC website and other digital services are back online, after a major cyber attack took out BBC News, iPlayer, iPlayer Radio, and several other digital services for a few hours on Thursday morning.
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Sources within the BBC said the sites were offline thanks to what is known as a “distributed denial of service” attack.
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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”.
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“We apologise for any inconvenience you may have experienced”, it said. A Twitter post from the news agency’s press office attributed the outage to a “technical issue”.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
It later emerged the corporation had suffered a DDoS – a distributed denial of service – attack. This aims to knock a site offline by swamping it with more traffic than it can handle.
Social media reaction was swift.
The website issues meant the BBC News pages would not load without showing an error message and TV fans were unable to catch up with their favourite programmes on the BBC’s iPlayer.
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The site was working again by 10.30am. “Don’t Panic, Don’t Panic @BBC website seems to have gone down…” But last summer some of the site’s services broke entirely, for a whole weekend.
