3 Waves of Cyberattacks Brought Down Twitter, Spotify, Pinterest, NYT and Other Sites

Costing them traffic and likely money

UPDATE: There were three waves of cyberattacks today, but as of 7 p.m., they appear to have been resolved. 

It all started Friday morning, when a slew of digital publishers and other ecommerce players were hit by a cyberattack, causing their sites in some parts of the U.S. to go out in a problem that lingered into the early evening. According to DownDetector—check out its map above—the East Coast and Southern California were hit hardest while Western Europe also saw outages. 

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