Polish T-Mobile unit faces cyber attack, systems not compromised


FILE PHOTO A T-Mobile logo is seen on the storefront door of a store in Manhattan New York U.S. April 30 2018. REUTERSShannon StapletonFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: A T-Mobile logo is seen on the storefront door of a store in Manhattan, New York, U.S., April 30, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) - The Polish unit of T-Mobile said on Friday it had faced a cyber attack but said its network was not blocked and its critical systems had not been compromised.

The company said in a statement it had faced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, in which hackers try to paralyse a network by flooding it with unusually high volumes of data traffic.

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