The founders of the “total dictation” said a cyber attack on the website of the project – RBC

Crash Site in “total dictation” the work was due to a hacker attack. This Tass said one of the founders of the project Egor Zaikin.

«In the five minutes before the start of the campaign we have seen a sharp jump in traffic, which is characteristic of DDOS-attacks. The site was inaccessible for about an hour for users around the world “, -. Zaikin said

According to him, the project engineers took up the solution to the problem as soon as it was noticed, and eventually the site started to function normally in an hour . He noted that the people who waited for the restoration of the site, were able to write a dictation later.

However, at 18:30 MSK main page informs on carrying out technical work on it. “Dear participants of the” total dictation “on the site are carried out engineering work. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. All online dictation will be available for writing in the near future “, – stated in the

As previously wrote RBC, online broadcast on the website of” total dictation “, during which it was possible to write a dictation instantly check. it and get a detailed analysis of errors, was to begin at 15:00 MSK. However, users who wanted to take part in the event, go to the site and found that it does not work.

The action “Total dictation” is held annually since 2004. This year’s dictation was devoted to the ancient world and was called “brief about the history of the Olympic Games».