REPORT: Cyberattack knocks thousands offline in Europe amid Ukraine-Russia Crisis

Thousands of internet users throughout Europe have been knocked offline as a result of a possible cyberattack at the start of Russia's operation in Ukraine, according to sources. Following a "cyber incident" on February 24 at Viasat, a US satellite operator with whom Orange is a customer, roughly 9,000 users of a satellite internet service supplied by its subsidiary Nordnet in France are without internet, according to Orange.

The outage on Viasat affected almost one-third of bigblu's 40,000 users throughout Europe, including Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy, and Poland, according to Eutelsat, the parent company of bigblu satellite internet service. Viasat, based in the United States, said on Wednesday that a "cyber incident" had resulted in a "partial network outage" for customers using its KA-SAT satellite "in Ukraine and elsewhere" in Europe.