TalkTalk and Post Office routers were taken down by a distributed denial of service attack this week , which targeted Hull ’s internet provider Kcom and Germany ’s Deutsche Telekom . "For those customers who are still having problems, we are advising them to reboot their router. The attack left over one million customers without internet connection in Germany and the UK , with many customers complaining that TalkTalk and the Post Office had not sufficiently helped them with the issue . The agents behind the attack have not been identified , but the attack used a similar approach to the one used against the Dyn domain name attack , which took Twitter , eBay and Facebook offline for a week in October by exposing vulnerabilities in internet - connected devices .
TalkTalk and Post Office routers were taken down by a distributed denial of service attack this week , which targeted Hull ’s internet provider Kcom and Germany ’s Deutsche Telekom . The attack left over one million customers without internet connection in Germany and the UK , with many customers complaining that TalkTalk and the Post Office had not sufficiently helped them with the issue . The agents behind the attack have not been identified , but the attack used a similar approach to the one used against the Dyn domain name attack , which took Twitter , eBay and Facebook offline for a week in October by exposing vulnerabilities in internet - connected devices .