The International Meteor Organization says a cyberattack severely damaged its website infrastructure and took much of the site offline for weeks. The Belgium-based nonprofit said the attack hit aging systems; it has restored its fireball reporting system first and is moving to new infrastructure and services. No threat actor, malware family, or vulnerability details were disclosed.
Why it matters: People who use the organization's meteor and fireball reporting services may face outages or limited access, and the incident shows how attacks on small research and scientific groups can disrupt public data and reporting systems. Users should expect service instability and verify any updates through the organization's official channels.
2026.09.16
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This article appears to be the first concrete report that the International Meteor Organization suffered a cyberattack causing significant website and service disruption.
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