I heard that a few friends of mine complained about not being able to access to both social network like Facebook and Twitter. I didn’t accessed both sites at that time, so I didn’t know about it. But, later I found out that both websites were under the attack from a hacker.
Today news reported that this attack might be politically motivated. it was only Twitter that suffered a significant outage. Facebook and LiveJournal suffered slowdowns as a result of the attack, while Google users were not significantly impacted.
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Source: PC WORLD