The Bell - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: The Bell, Online news outlet

Incident date: August 25, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Bell news website was subjected to an external attack. «The Bell website was inaccessible this afternoon, and access problems persist to this moment. The reason was an external attack, the source and purpose of which we do not yet know», – The Bell stated.

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