Twitter goes down for several hours after being hacked

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Twitter goes down for several hours after being hacked

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The microblogging platform Twitter was the victim of a denial of service attack that lasted for several hours on Thursday, August 6; during the attack, the service was unavailable. It is still not known who caused band data the Twitter network to go down.

After being offline for several hours, Twitter founder Biz Stone informed users that “on this otherwise cheerful Thursday morning, Twitter has been the target of a denial of service attack,” he wrote on his blog . Stone said his team was trying to fix the problem and would then work on finding out where the attack came from.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks involve overwhelming servers on a network with a barrage of demands from multiple computers, overloading them and putting them out of service. Botnets are typically used - automatically created networks with thousands or tens of thousands of zombie computers, infected with Trojans or some form of malware, and controlled remotely by a hacker or organization.
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