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The Telegraph was one of several sites attacked, along with Betfair, the Register, and National Geographic


The Telegraph has said that customer data was not compromised during a hacking attempt last night which saw its website traffic diverted to a third party site.

The newspaper website was one of a number of sites said to have been targeted yesterday by a DNS (domain name server) attack, including technology news site the Register and National Geographic. According to reports, the attack was carried out by a Turkish group.

A Telegraph spokesman confirmed to Journalism.co.uk that its website was affected by the attempt to redirect traffic to a third party, but that its servers and customer data were not compromised.

"The problem was fixed last night by NetNames, a domain-name management service, who are conducting a full investigation into how the third party diverted traffic away from a number of high profile websites, including the Telegraph," the spokesman said.

The Register similarly reported that there was "no attempt to penetrate our systems".

The company did shut down all password-required services as a precaution, but said these have now been restored.

Last month News International was forced to contact readers of the Sun website to warn that customer information may have been breached after its site was hacked.

The publisher warned that information such as names and contact details given by readers when entering competitions or poll could have been breached following the July attack on the site, for which hacking collective LulzSec took responsibility.
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