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A large-scale incident earlier this week against Belnet and other ISPs has sent a wave of internet disruption across numerous Belgian government, scientific and educational institutions.
Belgian ISP Belnet has restored its service after a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this week that cut off Internet access to numerous government, public, scientific and educational agencies, including Belgium’s Parliament and some law-enforcement agencies.
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Belgium s parliament, universities, and scientific institutions have been targeted in a coordinated cyberattack.
Belnet, the company that provides internet services to the country s government agencies, said their network was victim of a large-scale attack on Tuesday.
Unknown hackers committed a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack at 11:00 (CEST), Belnet said, designed to prevent the availability of certain online services by overloading servers with data.
Belnet said the attack did not breach or steal any information from the network.
However, the hack meant all of Belnet s customers were either completely or partially cut off from the internet.
Belgian citizens were unable to access the websites of certain administrations on Tuesday and students could not use their university s online services.