Multiple government websites down across Canada, cyberattacks blamed for 2

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cyberattacks for their outages.Websites for Yukon, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Nunavut were all inaccessible throughout the day. P.E.I.

and Yukon said cyberattacks were behind their shutdowns.“At midnight on Sept. 14, Yukon.ca experienced a cyberattack that shut down the website and other public-facing Yukon government websites,” said a statement from the territory.By Thursday evening, the Yukon government website was accessible again.The type of attack we are experiencing sends abnormally high levels of traffic to our network to overwhelm our systems, but these types of attacks do not try and access information.— Government of Yukon (@yukongov) September 14, 2023At this point, we have not identified any threat to private citizen data, government systems, or unauthorized access to government files.We thank you for your patience and understanding during this temporary outage, and we will provide an update at 4 pm today or sooner.— Government of Yukon (@yukongov) September 14, 2023A news release from P.E.I.

said an attack had not compromised data but warned it might hinder transactions at government service centres.Manitoba said its interruption was due to network and server infrastructure and there was no indication it was related to a cyberattack.The government of Nunavut could not be immediately reached for comment.Those three websites were still down as of Thursday evening.Officials in Yukon and P.E.I. said cyberattackers used the denial-of-service tactic, in which the target website is flooded with too many requests.“A denial-of-service attack usually involves a specific threat actor targeting a specific domain and using a botnet — a bunch of computers that have been compromised on the internet and forcing