FuboTV goes kaput during World Cup semifinals, blames “criminal cyber attack”

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Sports-focused streaming-video work FuboTV said a “criminal cyber attack” was liable for a prolonged outage that prevented subscribers from viewing astir of Wednesday’s World Cup semifinal betwixt France and Morocco.

“The incidental was not related to immoderate bandwidth constraints connected Fubo’s part,” the institution said. “We were alternatively the people of a transgression cyber attack.”

There was nary denotation successful the FuboTV releases if lawsuit information was accessed oregon downloaded oregon that the hack was related to a ransomware attack. The institution has retained information steadfast Mandiant to analyse the intrusion. A spokeswoman declined to instantly reply questions and said the institution would supply an update erstwhile it had much information.