Yesterday, New Zealand Telecom was attacked by a hacker, causing thousands of users to interrupted with the Internet. It is alleged that approximately 12:30 yesterday, New Zealand Telecom is interrupted with the US Internet Supplier ABOVENET, until the connection is completely recovered at 3 pm. During this time, users with 310,000 New Zealand XTRA services and several ISP users cannot access overseas web pages. The New Zealand Telecom is a hacker's denial of service attack, and a large amount of fake information is bombarded to the Internet server. This is similar to this year's American website Yahoo and Amazon.com attacked and forced to close. Case. The hacker who attacks to New Zealand telecommunications is obvious from the Americas. Internet service provider ihug Anand Lal said that this attack severely affects XTRA and several small ISP. He said: "Although we have not affected, we are forced to monitor the Internet to happen at any time through simple connection testing. As for their affected level, I don't know much, but at least some XTRA services are not available." The XTRA Marketing Manager Chris Thompson also said that this attack has had considerable serious impact on them, but he has not disclosed detailed situation, he believes that these details may be very useful to hackers. At the same time, he also said that many users have become victims in this attack.
