“The website of a poll gauging Hong Kong residents’ opinions on elections was repeatedly hit by severe cyberattacks on its opening day, according to organizers and a firm seeking to protect the poll from such attacks. CloudFlare, which provides performance and security services for more than a million websites, termed the online assault one of the largest and most sophisticated denial-of-service attacks in the Internet’s history.
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Source: Hong Kong Democracy Poll Is Hit by Cyberattack – WSJ