Facebook Suffers Slowdowns from DDoS Attack
As part of an apparent coordinated distributed denial of service (DDos) attack on multiple popular websites this morning, many Facebook users were unable to access the site for a period of a few hours. The source of the attack, which also took down Twitter for hours and struck LiveJournal as well, has not yet been discovered. However, Facebook says service has been restored for most users and no user data was at risk:
Facebook has been known for having a very strong performance record overall, but today’s attack seems to have been coordinated and large enough to affect multiple big sites.
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