Twitter's servers unresponsive for half an hour, Wikileaks reporting DDOS attackKACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS Twitter was temporarily down, while whistleblowing website Wikileaks reported a DDoS attack. Relevant offersAnother mass DDOS attack might be responsible for shutting down social media platform Twitter. Wikileaks, the whistleblowing website responsible for releasing American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private emails, was also down. It reported a "massive targeted DDOS attack" on Facebook. A previous DDOS attack, on October 22, shut down many well-known websites, including Twitter, Reddit, PayPal and Spoitfy.

Source: Stuff November 07, 2016 07:55 UTC