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Meteorologist MetService’s website was blocked a day after confirming that it was the victim of a cyberattack.
On Wednesday, metservice.com is unavailable and visitors are redirected to its backup site www2.metservice.com.
The backup site contains all critical safety information and includes MetService severe weather alerts and advisories, MetService rain radar images, and brief forecast information.
A swath of New Zealand companies and websites have been targeted by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent days.
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Stuff, RNZ, Westpac, and MetService have said they have been targeted by DDoS attacks recently.
But hardest hit has been New Zealand stock exchange operator NZX, which had trading disruptions for four days last week and its main website crashed on Monday and Tuesday this week.
John Anthony / Stuff
MetService’s main website went down Wednesday and visitors were redirected to its backup site.
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.
MetService told TVNZ that it was the victim of a DDoS attack on Tuesday. Her website went down again on Wednesday.
On Monday, GCSB Minister Andrew Little said the government had no clues as to who might be behind the cyber attacks.
