Hackers attacked the BBC earlier this month, leaving some parts of the organization without access to e-mail and Internet services, the BBC has confirmed. The broadcasting network said in its own article on the attack that its director general, Mark Thompson, will address the attack in an upcoming speech and that it suspects involvement by Iran. Thompson has already accused the Iranian government of “jamming international TV stations such as BBC Persian TV” in an attempt to censor its news coverage.
The outages, the report said, could have been the result of a distributed denial-of-service attack, though a BBC spokeswoman told the news organization that she couldn’t provide more information on the specifics of the attack.
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