DDoS Attack Disrupts Norwegian Government Login Services
DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been targeting Norway's ID-porten, a central login system for public services, since early Monday, August 3. The attack, which also affects related services like MinID, Maskinporten, and Altinn, has caused intermittent outages and login difficulties for users. Digdir, the agency responsible, is working with its operations partner Vivicta to mitigate the attack. Traffic began recovering around 13:40, but full restoration may take time.
Since 01:00 Monday, August 3, a denial-of-service attack (DDoS) has been ongoing, affecting ID-porten, which is operated by Digdir's operations partner Vivicta.