Cybersecurity incident — 2016-01-22 00:00:00
Affected organization: Premier Lotteries Ireland
Affected country: Ireland
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

Premier Lotteries Ireland (PLI), which runs the Irish Lottery, confirms in a statement that it suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that knocked its website offline and made it inaccessible to gamblers for some hours.