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Paypal, Twitter, and Other Major Sites Hit by DDoS

posted by takyon on Friday October 21 2016, @08:26PM   
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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Original Submission

• Taking odds .... Taking odds .... (Score: 3, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday October 22 2016, @07:37AM

  by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Saturday October 22 2016, @07:37AM (#417547)

  I'm going to bet the Russians or North Korea (slight chance China) are going to get blamed within the next 24-36 hours. I'm really going to find that hard to believe without some really solid evidence from non-US sources. I could see Russia, etc. doing/trying a mass hack of banks/corporations/infrastructure but a DDOS that takes out a major portion of the US Internet? Doesn't make sense, because it revealed 1: how vulnerable the IoT is, and 2: how much of it has been hacked already. Now all those devices will get patched/secured and the bot net is likely going to get taken down or at least diminished to a noticeable extent.

  And for what? What is the benefit of a DDOS attack of this scale by a non US power other than to say "HEY, ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US!!" and inconvenience a lot of people.

  I have to wonder if this might not have been a false flag operation by certain US three letter agencies or other US groups with the ability to pull this off that want a particular person in the White House.

  Another possibility is it was a distraction to cover something else that was worth revealing that much control over the IoT.

  got a bowl of popcorn and a big soda. Going to be fun seeing how this plays out.

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  "Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."

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• Re:Taking odds .... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @05:01AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @05:01AM (#417757)

  > I'm going to bet the Russians or North Korea (slight chance China) are going to get blamed within the next 24-36 hours.

  Easy bet to make. What do you lose if you are wrong?
  Nothing.
  Monday you'll forget you bet wrong and have a brand new conspiracy theory to make yourself feel insightful.

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