The Qatar-based community says all hacking makes an attempt searching for to ‘entry, disrupt and management’ a few of its information platforms and web sites had been thwarted.
Al Jazeera Media Community has condemned a sequence of cyberattacks this week towards its companies, saying it reserved the fitting to take authorized motion towards these concerned.
In an announcement on Wednesday, the Qatar-based community mentioned the attackers tried to “entry, disrupt and management” a few of its information platforms and web sites.
All hacking makes an attempt between June 5 and June 8 had been monitored and thwarted, it added.
Al Jazeera mentioned nearly all of the assaults passed off on the night of June 6, earlier than the tv screening of Within the Grip of the Resistance, an episode of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Ma Khafia Atham (What’s Hidden is Better) documentary sequence.
“Al Jazeera condemns these cyberattacks and affirms its proper to pursue authorized recourse towards the perpetrators,” the community’s assertion mentioned.
“Such assaults solely enhance Al Jazeera’s resolve to proceed its daring and exemplary journalism,” it added.
Al Jazeera launched its first broadcast as an Arabic-language satellite tv for pc channel from Doha in 1996.
It has since expanded right into a media community with a number of retailers, together with tv channels, web sites and different digital platforms in a number of languages.