Belgian and Dutch domain name registrars hacked

The Foundation for Internet Domain Registration in the Netherlands (SIDN) has been forced to shut down several of its websites and temporarily limit access to the domain name registration system due to a security breach, while hackers have also defaced DNS.be, the organization that manages the .be top-level domain, writes Softpedia’s Eduard Kovacs. “In order to prevent abuse, SIDN immediately took a number of precautionary measures: the DRS web application was shut down and zone file publication was temporarily suspended. As a result of our precautionary action, some areas of the website that registrars use to download registrarship-related data have been unavailable since Tuesday evening,” SIDN stated. In a statement posted on its website, DNS.be explained that user data or the registration platform had not been compromised. The incident is still being investigated.