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Polish PM says Russian hackers behind cyberattack on party website

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk blames " Russian hackers" for a cyberattack that knocked his ruling party's website offline.

The Civic Platform ( PO ) party's candidate, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski , is polling first in opinion surveys.

The group carried out a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack -- flooding the system with traffic to make it inaccessible to legitimate users.

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