Several Sites Including Twitter, GitHub, Spotify, PayPal, NYTimes Suffering Outage -- Dyn DNS Under DDoS Attack [Update] (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday October 21, 2016 @06:30AM from the internet-outage dept.

Several popular websites and services are down right now for many users. The affected sites include Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, and PayPal among others. The cause appears to be a sweeping outage of DNS provider Dyn -- which in turn is under DDoS attack, according to an official blog post. From a TechCrunch report:Other sites experiencing issues include Box, Boston Globe, New York Times, Github, Airbnb, Reddit, Freshbooks, Heroku and Vox Media properties. Users accessing these sites might have more or less success depending on where they're located, as some European and Asian users seem not to be encountering these issues. Last month, Bruce Schneier warned that someone was learning how to take down the internet. Update: 10/21 14:41 GMT by M : Dyn says that it has resolved the issue and sites should function normally. Update: 10/21 17:04 GMT by M : Department of Homeland Security says it is aware of the first DDoS attack on Dyn today and "investigating all potential causes." Dyn says it is still under DDoS attack. News outlet The Next Web says it is also facing issues. Any website that uses Dyn's service -- directly or indirectly -- is facing the issue. Motherboard has more details. Update: 10/21 17:57 GMT by M : It seems even PlayStation Network is also hit. EA Sports Games said it is aware of the issues in live-play. Dyn says it is facing a second round of DDoS attacks.

Update: 10/21 18:45 GMT by M : U.S. government probing whether east coast internet attack was a 'criminal act' - official.

Editor's note: the story is being updated as we learn more. The front page was updated to move this story up. Are you also facing issues? Share your experience in the comments section below.

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Twitter Down by Feneric · 2016-10-21 01:11 · Score: 5, Funny

It's hard to tweet that Twitter is down when Twitter is down.
1. Re:Twitter Down by Big+Hairy+Ian · 2016-10-21 01:19 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  But if Google+ went down would anybody notice :D
  
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  Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
Starbucks is down too by known_coward_69 · 2016-10-21 01:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Tried to reload my card via the app and couldn't. had to pay for my drink with a credit card. The shame
1. Re:Starbucks is down too by sinij · 2016-10-21 02:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Tried to reload my card via the app and couldn't. had to pay for my drink with a credit card. The shame
  Did you drop your monocle into chardonnay^H^H^H^H Google Glass into your frappe because of that?
Re:Small dick russians by interkin3tic · 2016-10-21 05:38 · Score: 3, Funny

On the topic of Russians, I'm going to assume that this is Putin trying to help his employee Trump win. If Trump can't tweet, he can't keep reminding voters of all the reasons they want to vote against him. And the only way to keep Trump from tweeting is to take out Twitter.

It's mainly affecting the east coast, sure, but also Ohio which Trump needs to win.

Seems like a much more straightforward than using trolling to help him win.