Year2018 |
MonthOctober |
Reference number20181002 |
Impact areaShore |
Incident locationVancouver |
Incident countryCanada |
Victim countryCanada |
Victim identityPort of Vancouver |
Victim TypePort |
MethodDDoS |
In October 2018, the port of Vancouver got hit by a DDoS attack. nearly 225,000 user accounts were probed that day, though no further information was given on the consequences of this DDoS attack. By comparison, local port authorities admitted that they are probed this way every day, but never for more than 6,000 accounts at a time.