Hackers have attacked website of the European Parliament but they did not manage to enter the internal network, said the spokesman of that institution, Jaume Duš, reported the Agence France-Presse.
"Hackers did not succeed in entering the internal network of the system, so we continued to work normally within our internal system," said Duš and pointed out that the investigation of the hacker attack is ongoing.
The attack came just a day after Poland joined an international trade anti-piracy agreement in Tokyo, despite days of protests across the country.
That agreement, (The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA), was signed in Tokyo by the Polish ambassador to Japan, Jadwiga Radowicz Česzowski.
ACTA is an international agreement that aims to harmonize the copyright protection standards of those who produce music, movies, fashion, pharmaceuticals and various other types of intellectual property.
Internet users across Poland, fearing that the signing of the agreement will lead to massive internet censorship, have been protesting for days.
Thousands of people gathered on Tuesday evening in front of the EU representative office to boycott the agreement, and the hacker group "Anonymus" blocked the websites of the Polish government for several days, including the website of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the parliament and certain ministries.
Tusk, who authorized the ambassador to Japan to sign the agreement, said that the final version of the draft law will be completed only after Poland receives guarantees on freedom of internet access.
Tusk added that, if there is a need, changes will be made during the ratification phase of the law. As France Press reports, the Prime Minister's website was working again on Wednesday morning.
The members of the European Parliament have not yet voted on joining the Agreement, and this could happen at the session in June.
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