Twitter and Spotify among raft of websites hit by cyber attack
Several of the internet's most popular websites were unavailable for an extended period on Friday after a suspected cyber attack took place, disabling web technology provider Dyn.
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Twitter, Spotify, Tumblr and SoundCloud were among those affected by the outage, which came as a result of a "distributed denial-of-service", according to Dyn.
The internet management firm said that the issue was resolved at around 9:20am ET.
DDoS is a common ploy used by hackers to take down internet servers, in which they utilise a large network of computers to overload sites with junk traffic.
Amazon has previously said it has been affected by such attacks on the East Coast of the United States.
In a tweet posted Friday, Spotify said it was "having some issues right now and investigating," while SoundCloud said it was "investigating the cause".
We're seeing playback issues on iOS. Engineers are investigating the cause. For updates check our Status blog https://t.co/9anKTSU2Gj
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) October 21, 2016
We are aware of the ongoing service interruption of our Managed DNS network. For more information visit our status page.
— Dyn (@Dyn) October 21, 2016