Hromadske Radio - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Hromadske Radio, News website

Incident date: November 8, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv

Additional information:

A large-scale DDoS attack on the website of Hromadske Radio started on the morning of November 8, causing many users to have problems accessing the resource for some time. According to the technical team of Hromadske Radio, this DDoS attack had a scale of about 75 million requests in 30 minutes.

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