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| Spotify, Twitter among major sites to suffer outages due to cyber-attack | |
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| Some of the world's biggest websites including Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify and Shopify are experiencing technical problems due to a reported DDOS attack. | Some of the world's biggest websites including Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify and Shopify are experiencing technical problems due to a reported DDOS attack. |
| According to Hacker News, a “Massive Dyn DNS outrage” has caused Twitter, Etsy, Github, SoundCloud and Spotify, among others, to go down. | According to Hacker News, a “Massive Dyn DNS outrage” has caused Twitter, Etsy, Github, SoundCloud and Spotify, among others, to go down. |
| Other sites reportedly affected include Airbnb, Reddit and Vox Media. Users say they had a variety of issues, depending on their location, Tech Crunch reports. | Other sites reportedly affected include Airbnb, Reddit and Vox Media. Users say they had a variety of issues, depending on their location, Tech Crunch reports. |
| DDoS stands for a ‘distributed denial-of-service’ attack where a machine or network source is made unavailable for users by overwhelming the targeted website’s traffic bandwidth. | |
| “Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th [sic]-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available,” said Dyn, one of the world’s biggest internet performance management companies, posted on its website. | |
| The company said the attack is primarily affecting the “US East,” but engineers are looking to resolve the issue. | |
| In a tweet posted Friday, Spotify has said it is “having some issues right now and investigating,” while GitHub has described the attack as “a global event” that is “affecting an upstream DNS provider.” | |
| “GitHub services may be intermittently available at this time,” the site tweeted. | |
| SoundCloud also tweeted that the site is experiencing “playback issues on iOS” but engineers are “investigating the cause.” | |
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