Labour Party targeted in DDoS attack

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Attack may be linked with complaints from activists that the portal for ordering election leaflets had failed

The Labour Party has today claimed to have suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. However, the Party claimed to have foiled the attack due to its "robust security systems" and r...

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