However later Friday the affected areas had spread to parts of the Midwest and California.
Scott Hilton, executive vice president for products at Dyn, said in a statement Friday morning that a "global DDoS attack" had been launched on its Managed DNS infrastructure on the US east coast.Ī map published by the website initially showed service interruptions for Level3 Communications, a so-called "backbone" internet service provider, across much of the US east coast and in Texas. The website Gizmodo said it had received reports of difficulty at sites for media outlets including CNN, The Guardian, Wired, HBO and People as well as the money transfer service PayPal.ĭyn, which is headquartered in New Hampshire, said the attack went after its domain name service, causing interruptions and slowdowns.
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The cyber attack meant that millions of internet users could not access the websites of major online companies such as Netflix and Reddit as well as the crafts marketplace Etsy and the software developer site Github, according to media reports. "Our engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue," the company said on its website close to 1700 GMT. Service was initially restored within about two hours but close to three hours later the company said again said it was responding to an attack.
The internet service company Dyn, which routes and manages internet traffic, said that it had suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its domain name service shortly after 1100 GMT.
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