New Zealand banks, post office hit by outages in apparent cyber attack
Websites of a number of financial institutions in New Zealand and its national postal service were briefly down on Wednesday, with officials saying they were battling a cyber attack.
The country's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) said it was aware of a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack targeting a number of organisations in the country.
It was "monitoring the situation and are working with affected parties where we can," CERT said on its website. Some of the affected websites affected by the attack according to local media reports included Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's (ANZ.AX) New Zealand site and NZ Post. In a Facebook post, ANZ told customers it was aware some of them were not able to access online banking services. "Our tech team are working hard to get this fixed, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause," the post said.
