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This Is Why Half the Internet Shut Down on October 21, 2016

This Is Why Half the Internet Shut Down on October 21, 2016

Illustration of the October 21, 2016 internet outage caused by the Dyn DNS DDoS attackTwitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to assume that the two situations are related.

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The culprit was a massive DDoS aimed at the DNS provider Dyn — the same event covered in the attack on Dyn that hit Twitter, PayPal and HBO.

Graphic illustrating the widespread internet disruption on October 21, 2016

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