Numerous French media websites have gone down a day after warnings of a wave of Islamist cyber attacks.
The sites of Le Parisien, Marianne and 20 Minutes were among those affected, although most were soon restored.
The French government said some 20,000 sites had been targeted after terror attacks in Paris left 17 dead.
The media sites’ web host said that it was investigating whether it was one of them but it has ruled out an external distributed denial of service attack.
On Thursday, the head of cyber security for the French military, Vice Admiral Arnaud Coustilliere, said that “structured” groups and “well known Islamist hackers” were behind the attacks against the 20,000 sites, but did not elaborate.
The outage among the media websites began the following day. It is not yet known if the two are linked.
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