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ChristianaCare website targeted in cyberattack

Delaware Public Media

ChristianaCare’s main website went down Tuesday after a cyberattack.

The so-called distributed denial of service attack is the latest in a series of similar incidents targeting healthcare providers across the country. Attackers flooded the website with internet traffic to overwhelm ChristianaCare’s system.

In a statement Wednesday, ChristianaCare said that it had restored access to its website within hours of the attack. The hospital added that the attack did not include any data security breaches.

The pro-Russian ‘hacktivist’ group KillNet took credit for the attack and dozens of others across the country on Tuesday.

Paul Kiefer comes to Delaware from Seattle, where he covered policing, prisons and public safety for the local news site PubliCola.