United Kingdom
GBR
DDoS attack disrupts Canonical and Ubuntu public services
Beginning April 30, 2026, Canonical’s public web infrastructure was hit by a sustained cross-border DDoS attack. Canonical confirmed service disruption and restored affected services by May 6, while warning that some services could remain partially degraded. During the incident, Ubuntu archive, security and other Canonical endpoints experienced outages or intermittent availability, creating a direct service-availability impact for users relying on Ubuntu infrastructure.
78
Estimated severity
78 / 100
92
Source reliability
92 / 100
Approximate Date
30/04/2026
Targeted Company
CANONICAL
Targeted Company Supply Chain Impact
Distribution & Fulfillment
Procurement & Sourcing
Production & Manufacturing
Sales (Retail & Ecommerce)
Warehousing
Service Delivery
Unrecognized Impact
Supply Chain Relations
No information
Geographic Impact
Country Targeted Company
Other Affected Countries
No other affected countries reported
Target country
United Kingdom
Affected countries
No information
Impacted regions
No information
Operational Impact
Duration
6 days
Financial impact (USD M)
No information
Impact types
Service unavailabilityService degradationDownstream customer disruption
Affected sectors
Technology & IT Services
Affected departments
Information Technology
Attack Profile
Attack types
Distributed denial of service
Attributed threat actors
No information