Major internet services, including Twitter and Spotify, suffered outages today as a US internet provider came under cyber attack.
The internet service company Dyn said that it had suffered a denial of service (DDoS) attack on its domain name service shortly after 6AM ET (11AM BST).
The outages mostly affected the east coast of the US. The issue has now been resolved.
Some US internet users had trouble accessing sites including Twitter and Vox, but others found the sites accessible in Europe or via mobile phones.
Other sites experiencing issues included Github, Airbnb and Reddit.
New Hampshire-based Dyn said its server infrastructure was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack, which works by overwhelming targeted machines with malicious electronic traffic.
The level of disruption caused was hard to gauge, but Dyn provides internet traffic optimisation to some of the biggest names on the web.
'This morning, October 21, Dyn received a global DDoS attack on our Managed DNS infrastructure in the east coast of the United States,' said Scott Hilton, executive vice president for products at Dyn, in a statement.
'DNS traffic resolved from east coast name server locations are experiencing a service degradation or intermittent interruption during this time,' Hilton added.
'We have been aggressively mitigating the DDoS attack ..............
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Source: dailymail.co.uk
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