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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 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.

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