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Article: Hackers KO Twitter for hours
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 6, 2009
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SAN JOSE -- Twitter, the San Francisco-based social network built
around short text messages, was shut down for several hours Thursday
by an apparently deliberate automated deluge of messages that
overwhelmed its system.
"On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target
of a denial of service attack," company co-founder Biz Stone
confirmed on the company's official blog.
"Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to
disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit-
card payment gateways and, in this case, Twitter for intended
customers or users," Stone added. "We are defending against this
attack now and will continue to update our status blog ...