Albanian government services suffer ‘massive' cyber attack

Albanians were unable to use scores of government services on Monday as a cyber attack caused the main servers of the National Agency for Information Society to go down only a few months after shifting most public sector services to an online portal.

“Albania is under a massive cybernetic attack that has never happened before. This criminal cyber-attack was synchronised… from outside Albania,” the Council of Ministers said in a press release.

The "wide and complex" attack began on Friday and targeted government infrastructure and other public online services and rendered them functionless, the government added.