WARSAW (Reuters) – The Polish unit of T-Mobile mentioned on Friday it had confronted a cyber assault however mentioned its community was not blocked and its essential systems had not been compromised.
The firm mentioned in an announcement it had confronted a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault, through which hackers attempt to paralyse a community by flooding it with unusually excessive volumes of knowledge visitors.
“It was the biggest assault of this sort on the T-Mobile community, and to our data additionally the biggest direct assault on a cellular community operator in Poland,” it mentioned.
T-Mobile additionally mentioned the assault and its penalties have been being analysed and have been reported to the related authorities.
(Reporting by Anna Koper; Editing by Edmund Blair)
