Thomas Cook India Reports Cyber Attack in Its IT Infrastructure

The company's India operations are based out of Mumbai. While accessing the company's website after the development, Mint found that the homepage was flagging an Error 503, and the Google search results were also showing an error page instead of the travel agency's website on December 31.

Thomas Cook India's website takes a hit, as users find Error 503 on the homepage.
Thomas Cook India's website takes a hit, as users find Error 503 on the homepage.
Google search results for Thomas Cook India website on December 31.
Google search results for Thomas Cook India website on December 31.

What is an Error 503?

According to Microsoft's official support blog, Error 503 occurs when the website is in a stopped state from the owner's side.

“The ‘503 Service Unavailable’ message typically appears when the application pool is in a stopped state," said Pradeep Sharma in the support blog post.

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What is an Error 503?

According to Microsoft's official support blog, Error 503 occurs when the website is in a stopped state from the owner's side.

“The ‘503 Service Unavailable’ message typically appears when the application pool is in a stopped state," said Pradeep Sharma in the support blog post.



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