Bluesky Faces Prolonged DDoS Attack Disrupting Services
By Jay Peters

AI Summary
Bluesky has been grappling with a persistent DDoS attack that has caused significant disruptions in its services, affecting users' ability to access feeds, notifications, threads, and search functionalities. The attack, which began early in the morning, led to intermittent outages reported by users. Despite the disruptions, Bluesky assures that there has been no unauthorized access to private user data. The company is actively working on mitigating the impact and plans to provide further updates by Friday afternoon.
Key Concepts
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal functioning of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic.
Service interruption refers to the temporary halt or disruption of a service, preventing users from accessing or using it as intended.
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SecurityOriginal source
https://www.theverge.com/tech/913638/bluesky-has-been-dealing-with-a-ddos-attack-for-nearly-a-full-dayMore on Discover
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