BOSTON — You may have had issues checking your Twitter feed Friday morning and you weren't alone.
According to the website DownDetector.com, widespread reports around New England showed sites like Twitter, Reddit, Spotify, SoundCloud and Tumblr were out of service for Friday morning.
The sweeping outage is being blamed on a DDOS attack against a Dyn DNS, a service provider based in Manchester, N.H., according to TechCrunch.
The domain name system (DNS) service provides domain registration and other online infrastructure support for many major websites.
A DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) occurs when a website receives more requests than its host can process, some use this as a method of attacking websites or web hosts by sending a massive number of requests.
The company released a statement about the alleged attack Friday morning:
This morning, October 21, Dyn received a global DDoS attack on our Managed DNS infrastructure in the east coast of the United States. DNS traffic resolved from east coast name server locations are experiencing a service degradation or intermittent interruption during this time.during this time.
We have been aggressively mitigating the DDoS attack against our infrastructure. Our first priority over the last couple of hours has been our customers and restoring their performance. Services have been restored to normal as of 13:20 UTC. Now we'll continue to investigate the root cause.
Customers with questions or concerns are encouraged to check our status page for updates and reach out to our Technical Support Team.
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