several websites hit by HUGE DDoS today

[The Murderous Cop]

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/10/21/cyber-attack-takes-down-east-coast-netflix-spotify-twitter/92507806/
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/21/technology/ddos-attack-popular-sites/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3859500/Widespread-internet-havoc-major-attack-takes-websites-offline-Spotify-Twitter-sites-suffer-outages.html
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
https://mic.com/articles/157383/twitter-down-again-everything-we-know-about-fridays-ddos-attack-that-took-down-twitter-reddit-and-spotify#.MM09qWrkB
https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8

Here’s a list of websites that readers have told us they are having trouble accessing:

ActBlue
Basecamp
Big cartel
Box
Business Insider
CNN
Cleveland.com
Etsy
Github
Grubhub
Guardian.co.uk
HBO Now
Iheart.com (iHeartRadio)
Imgur
Intercom
Intercom.com
Okta
PayPal
People.com
Pinterest
Playstation Network
Recode
Reddit
Seamless
Spotify
Squarespace Customer Sites
Starbucks rewards/gift cards
Storify.com
The Verge
Twillo
Twitter
Urbandictionary.com (lol)
Weebly
Wired.com
Wix Customer Sites
Yammer
Yelp
Zendesk.com
Zoho CRM
Credit Karma
Eventbrite
Netflix
NHL.com
Fox News
Disqus
Shopify
Soundcloud
Atom.io
Ancersty.com
ConstantContact
Indeed.com
New York Times
Weather.com
WSJ.com
time.com
xbox.com
dailynews.com
Wikia
donorschoose.org
Wufoo.com
Genonebiology.com
BBC
Elder Scrolls Online
Eve Online
PagerDuty
Kayak
youneedabudget.com
Speed Test
Freshbooks
Braintree
Blue Host
Qualtrics
SBNation
Salsify.com
Zillow.com
nimbleschedule.com

tl;dr a incredibly large DDoS on DynDNS caused outages on several websites, blacking them out and making them unusable.

[Ad Bot]

[dr_pepper]

lol

[MoltenKitten]

why though?

[Frequency]

IT'S TEH RUHSHINZ

[Nonnel]

I'm glad they hit iHeartRadio
But, uh, what is taking down a couple websites for a few minutes going to achieve?

[CRITAWAKETS]

XKCD's image hosting also got hit but not the website. It sucks because a new comic got released today.

[Zloff]

my coworkers were talking about this earlier today. i wonder y tho

[crazies alt]

so what are we accomplishing here

[The Resonte!]

at least the blockland forums didn't get hit

[e-maxx]

at least the blockland forums didn't get hit

they did actually

it was down for like 5-10 mins

i was contemplating killing myself

[MrLoL²]

But, uh, what is taking down a couple websites for a few minutes going to achieve?

Been hours so far, and it doesn't seem to end

[WaffleCake]

i think puush got hit too :[

[SBG]

inb4theyhitBLF

[SimpleFish]

I was wondering why I couldn't get on twitter...

[Merp]

why tho