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International Meteor Organization says cyberattack dealt ‘critical blow’ to website

DataBreaches.net · · International · Surveillance & Civil Liberties

Jonathan Greig reports: A cyberattack has shut down the website of the premier international organization responsible for tracking meteors. The International Meteor Organization (IMO) has continued tracking asteroids and meteor through its Facebook page, but its website now carries a static page notifying visitors of the cyberattack. “We recently suffered a cyberattack that dealt a... Source

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