Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack

Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack

Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.

Non-profit organization tracks meteorite due to cyber attack

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Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by “critical blow” from a cyberattack

The International Meteor Organization, the nonprofit that coordinates and publishes amateur and professional observations of meteor phenomena, said its infrastructure has suffered a “critical blow” from a cyberattack. “We recently suffered a cyberattack that dealt a critical blow to aging infrastructure, taking much of our site offline,” a static page on its website on Wednesday

International Meteor Organization says cyberattack dealt ‘critical blow’ to website

A website used around the world for reporting meteors faces weeks of downtime as the organization moves away from systems that were hacked recently.