The Polish public television TVP's online broadcast of Poland's Group D opening match against the Netherlands in the Euro 2024 championships was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack at the start of the match, the broadcaster has said.
“At about 3pm Polish Television detected a DDoS attack carried out from IP addresses located in Poland,” TVP said on the X platform on Sunday afternoon.
DDoS attacks block websites by overwhelming them with a flood of internet traffic.
“After less than a minute, we took action in collaboration with national operators, which led to a mitigation of the attack. The IT teams have restored the service,” the broadcaster added.Około godziny 15:00 Telewizja Polska odnotowała atak DDOS przeprowadzony z adresów IP zlokalizowanych na terenie Polski. Po niecałej minucie zaczęliśmy działania przy współpracy z operatorami krajowymi, które doprowadziły do mitygacji ataku. Służby IT przywróciły usługi.
— tvp.info 🇵🇱 (@tvp_info) June 16, 2024
DDoS attacks block websites by overwhelming them with a flood of internet traffic.
Source: Twitter, PAP
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