Why are most cyber attacks reported as taking a website down?

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As we see more and more cyber attacks making headlines they all seem mention “the ministry of X website was taken down” or “ Department of X’s website was unavailable”. It seems to me that taking down a website is a pretty small move, if that’s it. I don’t need to access the Dept. Of Energy website to make my life work. Is the website being down just a public facing indication of more bigger things going on behind the scenes, like files being inaccessible for internal users?

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A network breach is embarrassing and can cause the value of a company to go down, by impacting trust. If the breach can be kept in house then that’s what most companies will do if the breach is public they need to address it.

Websites are public.

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