China Journalist Group Hit With Cyberattack

An international journalists association in Beijing said Friday that its Web site was the target of cyberattacks, the latest in a string of incidents that have affected foreign journalists in China.

The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said in a statement that it disabled its Web site temporarily to deal with the problem after it experienced persistent attacks over two days involving a flood of traffic that overwhelmed its servers. Such attacks, while making a site inaccessible to regular visitors, are different from those that seek to gain unauthorized access to a Web site’s administration.

The group–which has around 400 members and lists the improvement of working conditions for journalists in China as one of its priorities–doesn’t know the motivation of its attackers or where the denial-of-service attacks originated except that they were routed through servers in both China and the U.S., the statement said.

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