Paris: Several thousand internet users across Europe found themselves offline following a likely cyberattack at the beginning of Russia’s attack on Ukraine on Friday.
According to Orange, almost 9,000 internet subscribers provided by its subsi
diary France’s Nordnet are without the service following a “cyber event” on February 24 at Viasat, a US satellite operator of which it is a client, reported news agency AFP.
The parent company of the bigblu satellite internet service, Eutelsat, also told the agency on Friday that around one-third of bigblu’s 40,000 subscribers in Europe, in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Poland, were impacted by the outage on Viasat.