If you unsuccessfully tried to access Twitter, Spotify, Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, SoundCloud, PayPal, Disqus, and a slew of other popular sites this morning, that’s because all of the above were temporarily taken down by a complicated cyberattack on the New Hampshire-based internet performance company Dyn, which counts the affected sites as clients. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) began around 7 a.m. EST this morning and lasted for about two-and-a-half hours before a fresh wave began that’s still impacting some of the aforementioned sites.

Cyberattack knocks out access to Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, others – UPI.com: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2016/10/21/Cyberattack-knocks-out-access-to-Twitter-Spotify-Reddit-others/8831477062010/?spt=hs&or=bn

Waves of cyber attacks hit Netflix, Spotify, Twitter: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/10/21/cyber-attack-takes-down-east-coast-netflix-spotify-twitter/92507806/

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