Websites of municipalities and provinces are back up after a suspected attack on Monday morning. An underlying platform was flooded with digital traffic and was therefore temporarily inaccessible.
The service with which municipalities and provinces publish official messages has been available again since Monday afternoon, reports supplier NotuBiz.
Due to the attack, visitors could not access the pages with municipal council documents of, among others, The Hague, Den Bosch, Delft and Hardenberg. The Staten pieces of, among others, South Holland and Overijssel were also more difficult to reach. In North Holland and South Holland, meetings could not be viewed online.
According to NotuBiz, there was “a large amount of network traffic towards our systems”. The company does not yet want to say whether it is a DDoS attack.
The disruption may be the work of the pro-Russian hacker group NoName05716. They often carry out such attacks on sites in countries that support Ukraine.
The Hague is the host city of the annual NATO summit on Tuesday and Wednesday. Attacks had already been warned of in the run-up to the summit.