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MetService’s main website went down Wednesday and visitors were redirected to its backup site.
Meteorologist MetService says his website crashed as a result of a cyberattack and anticipates the attack will continue for days.
A MetService spokesperson said its security service provider experienced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting MetService on Tuesday and the issue was resolved.
He said he was also having problems with his website on Wednesday. Metservice.com is unavailable and visitors are redirected to its backup site www2.metservice.com.
“Together with other organizations, we anticipate that we could be dealing with similar situations in the coming days,” the spokesperson said.
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The backup site contains all critical safety information and includes MetService severe weather alerts and advisories, MetService rain radar images, and brief forecast information.
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NZX has been the target of a sustained cyberattack from abroad.
“The MetService team remains on high alert and our service provider has additional resources available to help navigate and mitigate the situation effectively.”
A swath of New Zealand companies and websites have been targeted by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent days.
Stuff, RNZ, Westpac, and MetService have said they have been targeted by DDoS attacks recently.
But the hardest hit has been New Zealand stock exchange operator NZX, which had trading disruptions for four days last week. Its main website crashed on Monday and Tuesday this week, but trading was unaffected.
MetService told TVNZ that it was the victim of a DDoS attack on Tuesday. Her website went down again on Wednesday.
The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), the Financial Markets Authority and Nasdaq-listed cybersecurity company Akamai Technologies were summoned in support of the NZX.
TSB Bank also alerted authorities to a disruption of its banking services on Tuesday afternoon, however it has not said whether it was the target of a DDoS attack or not.
On Monday, GCSB Minister Andrew Little said the government had no clues as to who might be behind the cyber attacks.
