The Kela Finnish Social Insurance Institution has been hit by a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks that crashed some of its online services on Friday and Saturday, according to the uutiset website.
Kela says it suffered disruptions for two and a half hours on Friday evening and for about four hours on Saturday and believes the attacks came from abroad. The targeted disruptions prevented customers from accessing the Kanta.fi, Omakanta and Kelain online services, so patients could not access their electronic prescriptions. However Kela says that the attacks have not affected the operations of Finland's pharmacies except for a few small independent ones that lack permanent broadband data links to Kela.