Server attack briefly disrupts New Hampshire tourism website, no evidence site was targeted

New Hampshire's tourism website was inaccessible for less than an hour Monday due to a cyberattack against an outside server.

The state Division of Travel and Tourism Development says the company that hosts visitnh.gov experienced a "distributed denial of service" attack on servers at one of its datacenters.

As a result, the visitnh.gov site and the other websites hosted at that datacenter were inaccessible for 44 minutes starting at 8:57 a.m.

State officials and others are working to determine more details about what caused the problem, but say there is no evidence that visitnh.gov was specifically targeted.

Maine's government website was also knocked out of service for a while Monday.