An oversized photo that was viewed simultaneously by many people. Thus, the police website was unreachable for hours Sunday, police says. The problems have been resolved and the site is again accessible politie.nl
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Photo: Peter schoonen
This is a photo of a body was found Friday in a suitcase in the Meuse in Maastricht. The suitcase was Tuesday thrown into the river. The police made the figure public Sunday because investigators still do not know who the victim is and that she is deceased. The call for information was also distributed in Belgium and Germany. “It was a big picture, many megabytes. The story was also viewed by thousands of people. We have reduced the picture, and that seems to work. The site is stable, “said a police spokeswoman said.
The photo was published Sunday around 15:30. An hour later the site from the air. Because of the failure was not possible to report via the internet. The emergency numbers 112 and 0900 to 8844 were just reached.
DDoS
Initially, the police spoke of a so-called Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). In addition, attackers send a large amount of traffic to specific servers simultaneously. That pressure can not touch or be temporarily unavailable. The police does not exclude that there was not yet out of a combination: that the site was attacked at the same time that others would read the story about the found body. Technical examination Monday should make that clear.
Earlier this month, cable operator Ziggo was the victim of a major DDoS attack. Customers could hardly the Internet. The site of the Volkskrant was unattainable and a half hours after a cyber attack
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