Melbourne IT suffer denial-of-service attack, thousands of websites inaccessible
Financial Review | April 13, 2017
As many as 500,000 Australian websites were rendered inaccessible for up to 90 minutes on Thursday morning, after Melbourne IT's domain name system servers NetRegistry and TPP Wholesale suffered a cyberattack. Customers took to forums such as Whirlpool to vent their fury at Melbourne IT for the DNS server outage, far from a first for the ASX-listed company.