If you’ve been having trouble getting access to The Horn News and your other favorite websites, you are not alone.
There have been reports of widespread internet disruption all across the East Coast of the United States after a major internet company was hit by a large cyberattack.
User information and security are safe, experts say. It is only the web stability at risk.
New Hampshire-based Dyn said its server infrastructure was hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which works by overwhelming targeted machines with malicious electronic traffic.
The company said in a series of statements that the attack took place early Friday local time and created disruption, but that “services have been restored to normal,”
The level of disruption caused was hard to gauge, but Dyn provides internet traffic optimization to some of the biggest names on the web, including Twitter, Netflix and Visa.
Several sites, such as coder hangout Github, also reported experiencing problems, although it was not immediately clear whether the issues were linked to the cyberattack.
Our Horn News IT team is working as quickly as possible to resolve any issues user of our site have experienced.
Thank you for your patience.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
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And of course there is absolutely no problems with our Presidential votes being transmitted to Spain for counting and then returned? The next couple of weeks may be jist for a great Hollywood thriller-and real at the same time. But of course there’s nothing to worry about.