Dubai:
Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera stated it was subjected to continual hacking attempts more than current days but the cyberattack on Qatar’s flagship broadcaster had been fended off.
Al Jazeera’s sites and platforms knowledgeable “continued electronic attacks aimed at accessing, disrupting and controlling some of the news platforms” from last Saturday to Tuesday, the network stated in a statement.
“Al Jazeera’s service provider was able to monitor and fend off all the hacking attacks and prevent them from achieving their goal,” it stated in the late Wednesday statement.
It stated the peak of the attacks came on Sunday ahead of a documentary described on Al Jazeera’s Arabic YouTube channel as detailing indirect negotiations among Israel and Palestinian extremist group Hamas, which integrated a voice recording purportedly of an Israeli held prisoner in Gaza.
Al Jazeera had no quick additional comment when contacted by Reuters early on Thursday.
The Qatar-funded channel’s coverage of Middle East politics is regarded as inflammatory by quite a few in the area and was one of the components that led 4 Arab states to boycott Qatar in 2017.
Ahead of the embargo, Al Jazeera combated a substantial-scale cyberattack following Qatar’s state news agency QNA was hacked.
Saudi Arabia and its allies last January announced the finish of the row in which the boycotting states accused Qatar of supporting terrorism, an accusation it denies.
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