The European Commission servers were forced to go offline for hours on Thursday after suffering a series of large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

The Commission confirmed there was no data breach and also claimed that there was no service interruption but one staff member revealed they couldn’t access the Internet for hours after the attack. It is unclear if Commission’s servers were down due to the attack or if security specialists purposely disconnected them from the Internet to avoid further damage.

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