Affiliated media: Basta, News portal

Incident date: April 22, 2020

Attack type:

• Cyber-, DDoS, and hacker attack on a media outlet

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Turan.az

Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Additional information:

The Basta information portal was once again subjected to a hacker attack, its editor Mustafa Hajibayli told Turan. "The attack was yesterday, the website was destroyed,” he said. The editor recalled that on January 31 - nine days before the parliamentary elections, the results of hacker attacks captured the Basta website, its Facebook page, as well as the pages of the Musavat party and its chairman. “With great efforts, the website and the page were restored, but yesterday, the site was again destroyed. We believe that this was done by order of the authorities,” Hajibeyli said.