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Last night the Department of Justice and Finance websites experienced a Distributed Denial of Service attack. This is not an attempt to extract information from the website but is instead an attempt to stop access to a service.

There seems to be no damage done to the website, however a review is being conducted this morning. The situation continues to be monitored by the Department of Justice and the Department of Communication. Gardai have been contacted on the matter.

The Government is aware of the potential threat of this type of cyber attack and the Department of Communications is coordinating a whole of Government response to this threat.