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<strong>Update 5: </strong>At 6:18 P.M. Eastern Dyn said the DDoS attacks have been resolved. Fingers crossed another wave doesn't occur, as happened earlier today. You can find Dyn's incident report here.</p><p>
<strong>Update 4: </strong>Dyn is being hit by a third wave of DDoS attacks Friday afternoon. The attacks are “well planned and executed, coming from tens of millions of IP addresses at the same time,” the company told CNBC.</p><p>
<strong>Update 3: </strong>A DownDetector.com heat map purportedly showing backbone internet provider Level 3’s East Coast outages was removed from this piece at 2:50 p.m. Eastern, as a Level 3 spokesperson says its network “was operating normally this morning, and [
the company] did not see an East Coast outage.” See the informative Periscope from its CSO embedded below.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3133847/internet/ddos-attack-on-dyn-knocks-spotify-twitter-github-etsy-and-more-offline.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Major DDoS attack on Dyn DNS knocks Spotify, Twitter, Github, PayPal, and more offline
