Digital Newspaper NRC Hit By Hacking By Publisher

Hack the digital publisher Twipe Mobile made ​​yesterday the digital newspaper NRC Handelsblad and NRC Next several Belgian newspapers were not available, so let Twipe. Twipe is a Belgian start-up that has developed a digital platform that issue digital newspapers can be offered.

According to the Belgian newspaper De Standaard knew vandals on the digital infrastructure of the publisher to break into. In addition, the virtual servers from the publisher were irreparably damaged. Twipe say they have no evidence that there are copied. The systems were Mailings containing login and passwords of digitally enabled subscribers.

Meanwhile, the Regional Computer Crime Unit of Leuven has begun an investigation into the burglary. Microsoft would also participate in the research, analyzing the log data of its own cloud service. In Belgium Twipe provides digital publishing newspapers Mediahuis (De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, De Gazet Van Antwerpen and Limburg The Importance) and of L'Avenir. Twipe Mobile also allows for the distribution of some French newspapers.

In the Netherlands Twipe care through apps for Android and Windows digital newspaper NRC. The website speaks NRC a "technical malfunction" that caused the digital editions for Android and Windows users yesterday were not available.Meanwhile, the problem would be largely solved. "TVNZ Today is now available. Earlier numbers are downloading the next few hours. We expect nrc.next Friday continued in the apps available. Earlier numbers are accessible again in the coming hours," the newspaper