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


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

“The incident was not related to any bandwidth constraints on Fubo’s part,” the company said. “We were instead the target of a criminal cyber attack.”

There was no indication in the FuboTV releases if customer data was accessed or downloaded or that the hack was related to a ransomware attack.

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Source: Ars Technica