[Information Clubic] The European Parliament, due to be renewed in the coming weeks, was deprived of its website on Thursday afternoon. A breakdown, or a cyberattack, prevents users from getting there.
The European Parliament website has no longer been accessible since Thursday afternoon, March 28, 2024. We noticed this directly while we were looking for information. It has been impossible to access the site since 3:30 p.m.-4 p.m. In the midst of a global geopolitical crisis and two and a half months before the European elections, the incident, in broad daylight, is obviously striking.
The European Parliament website is no longer accessible
Is the European Parliament the victim of a technical incident or a computer attack? We are trying to find out more, after having contacted the institution based in Brussels, because for the moment, no official reaction has been sent.
What we know is that for several tens of minutes this Thursday afternoon, the European Parliament website has been inaccessible. Although a purely technical incident is possible, it is, at this stage, unlikely. Certain live broadcasts on social networks, from Parliament, were, for example, not interrupted.
A cyber attack can be feared
The thesis of a cyberattack is, unfortunately, more than plausible. It would not be the first time that, in critical times, the Parliament website has been taken out of service. At the end of 2022, it was the victim of a DDoS (denial of service) attack from a group claiming to be pro-Kremlin, which paralyzed the platform.
Remember that a DDoS attack consists of sending an innumerable number of requests in waves to a target, a website, with the aim of preventing it from functioning, of making it inaccessible. Recently, several French ministries were targeted by the Anonymous Sudan group, also pro-Russian.
A cyberattack would in any case not be surprising, given that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia remains at the heart of the European Union’s concerns and with the immediate proximity of the elections aimed at renewing Parliament, which will take place on Sunday June 9, 2024.
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