Many sites including Twitter, Shopify and Spotify suffering outage

INTERNET BLACKOUT

Many sites including Twitter, Shopify and Spotify suffering outage

A number of popular sites and services are down right now for many users, including Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify and Shopify. 

The cause appears to be a sweeping outage of DNS provider Dyn, as a result of a DDOS attack, according to a post on Hacker News. We’re tracking the outage and will let you know if we discover anything further about outage length, cause or sites affected. 

Other sites experiencing issues include Box, Boston Globe, New York Times, Github, Airbnb, Reddit, Freshbooks, Heroku and Vox Media properties. 

Users accessing these sites might have more or less success depending on where they’re located, as some European and Asian users seem not to be encountering these issues. Dyn says that the DDOS attack affecting its customers is mostly impacting the U.S. East coast, and specifically Managed DNS customers. 

Engineers are working on “mitigating” the issue, according the DNS provider. As of around 9:15 AM ET some of the affected services appear to be improving in reliability. We’ll continue to monitor for updates.

NORSE ATTACK MAP ALSO SEEMS TO BE EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTY

Norse Attack Map is a map of the internet of the world which shows attacks in real time.

It's BARELY working right now.

UPDATE -

ATTACK IS AGAINST MAJOR INTERNET MANAGEMENT COMPANY

Sites across the internet had problems on Friday morning following a cyberattack on a major internet management company. 

Dyn announced on Friday morning that it has been the subject of a cyberattack that then caused major problems for numerous websites. 

People have reported issues with Twitter, Spotify, SoundCloud, Vox Media sites, Airbnb and numerous other sites. 

The attack was resolved as of 9:20 a.m. EST, Dyn said. Writing on its website, Dyn said that starting at about 7:00 a.m. EST, the company "began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. 

Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available." DDoS stands for "distributed denial of service" and is a common tactic used by hackers to take down internet-connected servers. 

In a DDoS attack, malicious users build a network of computers that then send massive amounts of traffic to particular servers with the goal of denying the use of those servers to other users, according to Cisco. The attack is mainly affecting the eastern United States, Dyn said.