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The Saskatchewan government says personal data hasn’t been compromised in an ongoing cyberattack on some of its websites.
An emailed statement from a government spokesperson Friday confirmed there had been a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Saskatchewan Account and Publications Centre website.
“Services are now restored,” the statement said. “At this time, there is no indication that personal information was compromised or shared.
“We are still experiencing a high volume of malicious traffic directed at our public-facing sites; however, the sites are protected via our web application firewall.”
According to www.cloudflare.com, a DDoS attack is “a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.”
The cyberattack in Saskatchewan followed website crashes in other provinces, but it’s unknown if they’re related.
According to The Canadian Press, websites run by the Manitoba, Yukon, P.E.I. and Nunavut governments also were down at times Thursday.
The wire service said the Manitoba government announced its website was down due to an unplanned service interruption that affected all of its public websites and web services.
The Manitoba government said there wasn’t any indication its service interruption was related to a cyberattack.
— With files from The Canadian Press