Hungarian banks, telecoms services briefly hit by cyber attack: Magyar Telekom

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Some Hungarian banking and telecommunication services were briefly disrupted by a powerful cyber attack on Thursday launched from computer servers in Russia, China and Vietnam, telecoms firm Magyar Telekom said on Saturday.

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The volume of data traffic in the attack was 10 times higher than the amount usually seen in DDoS events, the company said. “Russian, Chinese and Vietnamese hackers tried to launch a DDoS attack against Hungarian financial institutions, but they tried to overwhelm the networks of Magyar Telekom as well,” the company added in a statement.

 

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