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Paypal, Twitter, and Other Major Sites Hit by DDoS

posted by takyon on Friday October 21 2016, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the breaking-the-net dept.

e_armadillo writes:

I just tried to access my Paypal account, and apparently it is down.

Companies including Twitter, Netflix, PayPal and eBay appeared to have their websites broken. And other services like PlayStation Network appeared to be hit by a major outage:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/netflix-twitter-internet-down-not-working-broken-paypal-ebay-facebook-instagram-a7374506.html

Update: Internet service appears to stablize after waves of cyber attacks

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday October 21 2016, @08:35PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 21 2016, @08:35PM (#417406) Journal

    I mean these things are on very broad based CDNs so they can be down in some places and not others, but I'm seeing no signs of a successful denial of service to the listed sites.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday October 21 2016, @08:40PM

    by edIII (791) on Friday October 21 2016, @08:40PM (#417409)

    Can confirm.

    I have no issues accessing Netflix from Northern California, and no issues accessing any of the other sites from Northern Europe with the exception of PayPal. I wouldn't visit them for any reason since they're a fucking criminal banking organization that steals money from people in apparent civil disputes that never seem to become criminal even though that is exactly what would happen to a real bank.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by physicsmajor on Friday October 21 2016, @08:41PM

    by physicsmajor (1471) on Friday October 21 2016, @08:41PM (#417411)

    It's upstream, at the DNS level. Appears to be directed at the company Dyn, which has a heck of a lot of high profile clients. There have been at least two attacks so far.

  • (Score: 2) by forkazoo on Friday October 21 2016, @09:45PM

    by forkazoo (2561) on Friday October 21 2016, @09:45PM (#417435)

    Because of the distributed nature of a lot of this infrastructure, not everybody will see them as down, and very few will see all of them as down at the same time, but it's definitely happening and definitely large. Because it touches so many independent sites, this may well be the largest such attack to date.