Stock Exchange

Cyber attackers have downed the website of the New Zealand Stock Exchange for the fifth day in a row.

The attack, which started last week hit the bourse’s ability to operate normally.

The cyber bullies hit the website repeatedly by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, a common way to disrupt a server by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic.

But on Monday, despite the online disruption, trading was unaffected.

According to Reuters, the disruption came about an hour after NZX Ltd said it had agreed with the Financial …