(Bloomberg) – Problems experienced by internet users across the Eastern U.S. appear to have eased, with most sites back online after web-hosting services were invaded by hackers.
Dyn Inc., a significant Domain Name Server that facilitates the loading of web pages, said service was restored at 9:20 a.m. New York time after a DDoS, or distributed denial of service, attack that left people without access to Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and The New York Times, among other sites.
Separately, Amazon Web Services said on its " service health dashboard" site that it has identified the root cause of the internet issues affecting users along the East Coast, without elaborating further, and is "currently working to resolve." It wasn't immediately clear if the web outages were related, or whether Amazon Web Services was also the victim of a hack.
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