A shocking Internet attack shows America’s vulnerability
by Haley Sweetland Edwards and Matt Vella
Oct 29, 2016
3 minutes
THE INTERNET BEGAN TO WOBBLE AT 7 a.m. Early on Oct. 21, servers at a little-known Internet infrastructure company, Dyn, based in Manchester, N.H., began experiencing an overwhelming flood of malicious traffc. By midday a coordinated series of attacks had metastasized, eventually blocking or significantly slowing access to dozens of sites, including Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and Airbnb, for millions of Americans as well as web users in Brazil, Germany, India, Spain and the U.K. The FBI and the
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