Incident report: DDoS attack on Runbox 13th August 2026
Updated 17 Aug 2026 at 19:53 CEST. On August 13th, our email service experienced a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack which affected the Runbox email servers and our customers' access to their email accounts. The DDoS attack consisted of a...
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