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BBC websites hit by cyberattack on 31 December

2016-01-04 09:34:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) All of the BBC's websites were unavailable for several hours on 31 December after a distributed denial of service attack by a group calling itself New World Hacking, reports BBC News. The problems began around 07:00 GMT and hit the main BBC websites along with the iPlayer catch-up TV service and the iPlayer Radio app. The BBC said at 12:00 that its websites were operating normally and apologised for the inconvenience.

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