Cybersecurity incident — 2020-10-09 00:00:00
Affected organization: NextLight
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

A Friday afternoon cyberattack on NextLight, Longmont's high-speed, fiber optic broadband internet service, affected a number of customers but has been resolved. Longmont Power and Communications spokesman Scott Rochat wrote in an email that the disruption was the result of DDoS attack.