Hackers hassle San Jose police, city websites for days
Hackers attacked San Jose’s city and police websites, causing service interruptions for several days.
The attacks began last Thursday, mostly on the San Jose Police Department’s site and to some extent on the city’s main site, city spokesman David Vossbrink said. By Monday night, the attacks appeared to have diminished.
“We had intermittent interruptions over the next several days, mostly a matter of annoying inconvenience for staff and public users trying to access the websites for information,” he said.
The hack was more of a hassle than anything else, Vossbrink said. Systems were not breached, and data on the city and police department’s websites were not compromised, he said.
The attacks, described as “distributed denial-of-service attacks,” mostly overload a system with more traffic than it was designed to take at one time.
Vossbrink said pinpointing the source of the hack will be difficult because of the nature of the attacks.
Similar attacks have been reported in Oakland, Lodi, New York and other cities.
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