International Meteor Organization hit by critical cyberattack

The International Meteor Organization (IMO), a nonprofit dedicated to tracking and documenting meteor phenomena, has announced that a severe cyberattack has crippled its digital infrastructure. The organization reported that the incident caused a significant outage, forcing them to take much of their website offline. In a statement, the IMO described the event as a "critical blow" to their aging systems. While the team works on transitioning to new, more secure infrastructure, they expect several weeks of partial downtime. To maintain operations during this period, the IMO is prioritizing the collection of fireball observations through a temporary reporting channel and providing updates via their social media pages. The attack highlights the vulnerability of scientific nonprofits that rely on legacy systems to manage global data collection efforts.