Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-02-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: Nine Danish hospitals
Affected country: Denmark
Industry: Health Care and Social Assistance
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Protest
Actor: Anonymous Sudan (affiliated to Killnet)
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: A series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down nine Danish hospitals' websites for a few hours, but did not have any life-threatening impact on the medical centers' operations or digital infrastructure.