Twitter,Paypal,Reddit, ... are Offline

watch_later Friday, October 21, 2016
Twitter,Paypal,Reddit,GitHub,PSN ...
HACKED


A Massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Dyn, a world renowned (DNS) service provider.
Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time.
Websites such as : Twitter, GitHUB, PSN ,PayPal has been affected by this attack and can’t be reached 

List of sites that currently down according to our lovely readers:

Box.com
Twitter.com
Schoology and Apex
Npmjs.com (Node Package Manager (major javascript package manager)
Roblox.com
Github.com
Spotify.com
Shopify.com
Freshbooks.com
Netflix.com (slow loading time)
The Boston Globe
The New York Times
PayPal
Theverge.com
Pinterest.com
Constantcontact.com
Playstation Network (PSN)


Till now some web sites still down while Dyn is trying to deal with this unexpected attack





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