[Infowarrior] - Twitter, Livejournal reportedly down

[Richard Forno]

Twitter Attacked by Hackers; Service Disrupted Across US
Published: Thursday, 6 Aug 2009 | 11:15 AM ET
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By: Jim Goldman
Silicon Valley Bureau Chief

http://www.cnbc.com/id/32315027
The popular social networking site Twitter had its service disrupted  
acrross the US Thursday, the victim of an attack by hackers.



The service has been disrupted since 9 am EST.

Another social networking site, LiveJournal, also is down, CNBC has  
learned.

Twitter, whose popularity has exploded over the past year, currently  
has some 45 million users across the US.

Twitter co founder Biz Stone released this statement to CNBC:

"We are currently defending against a Denial of Service attack on this  
otherwise happy Thursday morning. Attacks such as this are malicious  
efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as  
online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter  
for intended customers or users. As I said, we are defending against  
this attack now and we'll continue to update our status blog as we  
continue to defend and later."

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