Websites of the BBC, including those with news content, were rendered unavailable by a New Year’s Eve DDoS attack, the venerable company reported. The outage lasted on the order of three hours. Service has been restored.
Sources say “distributed denial of service” attack caused BBC websites to go offline https://t.co/CKzX3hsniB pic.twitter.com/3hzqMlnH1D
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 31, 2015
The BBC website is now back up and operating normally. We apologise for any inconvenience you may have experienced.
— BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) December 31, 2015
From BBC News (italics added):
All the BBC’s websites were unavailable early on Thursday morning because of a large web attack.
The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors to the site saw an error message rather than webpages.