Crawford Gives targeted in cyber attack, reports intermittent outages

(WJET/WFXP)-- One of the largest charitable efforts in Crawford County reported that they've been targeted in a cyber attack on the first day of their donation drive, causing intermittent outages to their site.

Crawford Gives reported on their social media around 5:18 pm that they'd been targeted in a denial of service attack on their website, causing their site to go down for about 26 minutes.

While the site is back up, Crawford Gives said the attack was still ongoing and could slow down donation processing.

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency defines denial of service attacks as when legitimate users are unable to access information systems, devices, or other network resources due to the actions of a malicious cyber threat actor, which includes things like email, websit