Dutch voting guide sites offline in apparent cyberattack

AMSTERDAM: Two publicly-funded websites used by Dutch voters to help them decide which party to vote for in their national election were inaccessible on Wednesday, apparently victims of a cyberattack. The sites, "Stemwijzer" and "Kiescompas", are extremely popular, with nearly half of eligible voters using one or the other in the last national election in 2012. However, most voters use them in the weeks ahead of voting, not on election day. Organisers of Stemwijzer tweeted confirmation that their website was being subjected to a distributed denial-of-service, or 'DDoS' attack.