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- Big Chunk of the Internet Goes Down After DDoS Attack Hits Major DNS Provider -

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A DDoS attack on Dyn, a major upstream DNS provider, has shut down a large chunk of the Internet for about two hours, rendering millions of sites inaccessible.

On the list of websites users reported as down, we list a few such as Twitter, Reddit, Yelp, Imgur, PayPal, Shopify, Soundcloud, Spotify, GitHub, Heroku, Etsy, Box, Weebly, Wix, Squarespace, CPAN, NPM, Basecamp, Twilio, Zoho, HBO, CNN, Starbucks, Yammer, and others.

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