International Meteor Organization says cyberattack dealt ‘critical blow’ to website
A cyberattack forced the International Meteor Organization's website offline, with weeks of partial downtime expected during an infrastructure migration.
The Belgium-based International Meteor Organization (IMO), founded in 1988 to coordinate meteor observation standards and maintain a global fireball database, said a cyberattack took much of its aging infrastructure offline. The site now shows a static notice, and the organization expects several weeks of partial downtime while transitioning to new infrastructure, with the fireball reporting system prioritized and already restored. No hacking group has claimed responsibility. The incident follows 2023 attacks on the NOIRLab astronomy facility in Hawaii and the ALMA observatory in Chile, plus ransomware at the American Meteorological Society.
- IMO website down; fireball reporting system restored first
- Organization expects several weeks of partial downtime during migration
- No group claimed responsibility as of Wednesday
- Attack fits a pattern of targeting space and science research organizations
- Countries
- Belgium
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1 min read at therecord.mediaA website used around the world for reporting meteors faces weeks of downtime as the organization moves away from systems that were hacked recently.
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