Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack

WHO WOULD DO SUCH A THING? Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by “critical blow” from a cyberattack Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.

5 Credit: Interntional Meteor Organization Credit: Interntional Meteor Organization Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav The International Meteor Organization, the nonprofit that coordinates and publishes amateur and professional observations of meteor phenomena, said its infrastructure has suffered a “critical blow” from a cyberattack.

“We recently suffered a cyberattack that dealt a critical blow to aging infrastructure, taking much of our site offline,” a static page on its website on Wednesday said. “We expect several weeks of partial downtime as we transition to new infrastructure and services.”