Danish supermarket chains hit by cyber-attacks amid Black Friday sales
Copenhagen — Danish supermarket chains Bilka and Føtex said their websites had been taken down by cyber-attacks at the launch of their Black Friday sales campaigns. The websites were hit by "malicious cyber-connection" attacks, an advanced form of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, in which hackers send numerous requests to refresh the websites, causing them to crash, a spokesman of Dansk Supermarked, the owner of both chains, said. However, the hackers were not attempting to obtain data from the company or its customers, and it was too early to say how sales would be impacted on one of the biggest shopping days of the year, he added.
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