
Cyberattack Disrupts Hong Kong Protester Forum
Return To ArticleHong Kong appeared to be the target of a large digital attack in recent days, with a popular online forum used by protesters saying its servers were hit on Saturday.
Digital Attack Map, which provides information on daily cyber attacks around the world, showed the financial hub at the center of distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks. LIHKG, a forum used by demonstrators to organize mass rallies in Hong Kong, said its servers were hit maliciously by a large DDoS attack in a way that had never seen before.