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A voting information website was targeted in a cyberattack on Friday evening as voters went to the polls, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Hackers targeted the Voter.ie website, which provides information about which polling stations to attend. The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack prompted the website to go offline for several hours on Friday evening. Today's top videos STORY CONTINUES BELOW A DDoS attack is when a website is targeted with thousands of requests in a short period of time, forcing it offline. Voter.ie can be used to check whether or not a person in the Dublin...
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