“The FBI is reviewing the case. At this point, we do not have any reason to believe the cyberattack was targeted towards a specific film,” said a Sundance spokesperson. The plot is thickening in the tale of the mysterious cyberattack that crippled the Sundance Film Festival’s box-office systems over the weekend. The FBI is investigating the hack and is working with Sundance officials to identify the culprit, a festival spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter. Although the festival was able to get its ticketing systems back online within an hour of the Saturday breach, multiple other denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Sundance’s IT infrastructure followed. A DDoS attack works by flooding the bandwidth or resources of a targeted server.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Hollywood Reporter
