Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Indonesian news portal server Tempo has been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber attack since Friday, June 5, 2026. The attack flooded Tempo's server with fake internet traffic, disrupting public access to the news site.
Tempo Digital Chief Technology Officer Heru Tjatur Tjahja said the attacks targeting Tempo over the past few days have been massive. As of Monday, June 8, 2026, the company's technology team had recorded a total of 24.9 million requests directed at its servers.
"The total attacks flooding our website as of June 8 reached 24.9 million requests," Tjahja said on Monday, June 8, 2026.
According to him, the DDoS attack was carried out using bots that generated a massive volume of internet traffic toward the website's servers. Based on Tempo's preliminary analysis, the attacks occurred sporadically with high intensity during certain periods.
Tjahja said the attackers tended to launch their actions during the evening and early morning hours. One of the largest attack waves occurred between 8:30 p.m. and midnight, when Tempo recorded 12.97 million attacks within just two hours.
"For example, the first major wave consisted of 12.97 million attacks in only two hours. From 8:30 p.m. until midnight, the attackers carried out a digital assault," he said.
A preliminary analysis showed that the attack sources were not limited to Indonesia. Tempo's technology team traced attack traffic originating from several countries, including Colombia, the United States, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Mexico.
As a result of the attack, public access to Tempo's website was temporarily disrupted.
"The DDoS attack made the Tempo website difficult to access," Tjahja said.
He suspected the DDoS attack was a continuation of a hacking attempt that previously targeted Tempo's content management system (CMS) at the end of May. In that incident, hackers unpublished several articles that had already been published.
According to Tjahja, the articles targeted in the hacking attempt were related to corruption cases. However, Tempo's CMS design limits user authority, preventing hackers from permanently deleting articles and allowing them only to unpublish content.
"It appears that those behind the attacks were unhappy, and then proceeded with the DDoS attack," he said.
Tempo has implemented a range of mitigation measures to address the attack, including updating access credentials and strengthening its security systems. Tjahja added that cyberattacks are not new to Tempo and are believed to be intended to disrupt the newsroom's journalistic work.
"We continue to strengthen security so that news operations and publication activities can continue uninterrupted," he said.
Source: https://en.tempo.co/read/2107546/tempo-hit-by-24-9-million-cyberattacks-after-corruption-report