Dyn Update, October 21, 11:00 a.m.: Internet infrastructure company Dyn acknowledged that a distributed denial of service attack against its systems had caused disruptions. Dyn says that the “Services have been restored to normal as of 9:20″.
The Beginning
On Friday morning, the internet in the east coast had some complications. The majority of users using the internet were not loading up and were reporting that to other websites such as Reddit, Airbnb, Tumblr, Amazon, and The New York Times, PayPal, Pintrest, and WhatsApp, there were a lot more. You could see the outage map was affected to it.
The whole internet wasn’t really down you could still google and Facebook and other sites were still running.
The cause of the problem could possibly be from Amazons Web Service, Amazon.com Inc. also said it had found the root cause of DNS problems affecting its East Coast cloud customers and resolved the issue. Amazon had said it was looking into an elevated number of errors related to accessing its cloud services in a main East Coast server hub due to DNS issues. Amazon Web Services runs a broad array of websites. Also, they are not sure if they have been hacked yet. I would recommend to change your passwords to Amazon Web Services.
THESE SITES WERE AFFECTED BY THE ATTACK?
- Spotify
- Esty
- Box
- Wix Customer Sites
- Squarespace Customer Sites
- Zoho CRM
- Iheart.com (iHeartRadio)
- Github
- The Verge
- Cleveland.com
- hbonow.com
- PayPal
- Big cartel
- Wired.com
- People.com
- Urbandictionary.com (lol)
- Basecamp
- ActBlue
- Zendesk.com
- Intercom
- Twillo
- Grubhub
- Okta
- Starbucks rewards/gift cards
- Storify.com
- CNN
- Yammer
- Playstation Network
- Recode
- Business Insider
- Guardian.co.uk
- Weebly
- Yelp
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