Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-11-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: OpenAI
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Protest
Actor: Anonymous Sudan
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: OpenAI addresses "periodic outages" due to DDoS attacks targeting its API and ChatGPT. The pro-Russia group Anonymous Sudan claims responsibility for the attack.