UK’s Labour Party says its systems were hit by a large-scale online attack on Monday. Officials on Tuesday say no data was compromised, but some some systems were temporarily inaccessible. DDoS attacks were later confirmed to be distributed denial-of-service attacks. The identity of the attacker or attackers has also not been revealed, but finding the actual attacker would likely require extensive investigation by intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Security experts have disagreed with Labour’s description of the attack as “sophisticated””]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/labour-party-hit-by-massive-online-attack-attempt-a-13398