By Canadian Press

Parts of National Research Council website down due to unspecified ‘cyber incident’

Mar 21, 2022 | 2:34 PM

OTTAWA — Some parts of the National Research Council’s website were taken offline due to a “cyber incident.” 

A brief statement on the council’s main webpage does not specify what kind of incident occurred, when it happened or which applications have been taken offline. 

However, Canada’s largest federal research organization has been targeted in the past.

In 2014, a Chinese state-sponsored actor stole more than 40,000 files, including intellectual property, research and business information from the council’s partners. 

The debilitating attack cost more than $100 million to fix, and a number of government organizations were involved. 

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Those details came to light last month in a report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which found gaps in the country’s cyberdefences that could leave government agencies vulnerable to attacks.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 21, 2022.

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