Minister: Scale of New Zealand cyber attacks unprecedented

New Zealand’s justice minister says the nation is confronting cyber attacks on an unprecedented scale. — AFP Relaxnews

WELLINGTON, New Zealand: New Zealand’s justice minister says the nation is confronting cyber attacks on an unprecedented scale, targeting everything from the stock market to the weather service.

Andrew Little said in an interview with The Associated Press on Sept 2 that tracking down the perpetrators of the attacks in recent weeks would be extremely difficult, as the distributed denial of service attacks are being routed through thousands of computers.