Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-02-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Dutch government websites
Affected country: Netherlands
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: All Dutch government websites suddenly go down on Tuesday morning, only coming back up more than twelve hours later. The day after, the Dutch Ministry of General Affairs, issues a brief statement saying indicating the outage as a consequence of a DDoS attack.