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                                                                            October 22, 2016
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                                                                 Malicious

This photo shows Dyn, a New Hampshire internet service company, in the old mill section of the city, Friday Oct. 21, 2016 in Manchester, N.H. Cyberattacks on a
key internet firm repeatedly disrupted the availability of popular websites across the United States Friday, according to analysts and company officials. The White
House described the disruption as malicious.

                                                                                                                                                                                                               (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

 US Internet Repeatedly Disrupted by Massive Cyberattacks

RAPHAEL SATTER                   its server infrastructure was   flix and Visa. Critically, Dyn  Jason Read, founder of the  Dyn for years and this is by
FRANK BAJAK                      hit by distributed denial-of-   provides domain name ser-       internet performance mon-   far the worst outage event
AP Writers                       service attacks, which work     vices, which translate the      itoring firm CloudHarmony,  that we’ve observed.”
LONDON (AP) — Cyber-             by overwhelming targeted        human-readable address-         owned by Gartner Inc.,      Read said Dyn provides
attacks on a key internet        machines with junk data         es such as “twitter.com”        said his company tracked    services to some 6 percent
firm repeatedly disrupted        traffic.                        into an online route for        a half-hour-long disrup-    of America’s Fortune 500
the availability of popular       The attack had knock-on        browsers and applications.      tion early Friday in which  companies.
websites across the United       effects for users trying to     Steve Grobman, chief            roughly one in two end       “It impacted quite a few
States Friday, according to      access popular websites         technology officer at Intel     users would have found it   users,” he said of the morn-
analysts and company of-         from across America and         Security, compared an out-      impossible to access vari-  ing’s attack.
ficials.                         even in Europe, affecting       age at a domain name ser-       ous websites from the East  A full list of affected com-
The White House described        sites such as Twitter, Netflix  vices company to tearing        Coast. A second attack      panies wasn’t immediately
the disruption as malicious.     and PayPal.                     up a map or turning off GPS     later in th                 available, but Twitter, Net-
Members of a hacker              The level of disruption was     before driving to the de-       e day caused disruption to  flix, PayPal and the coder
group spread across China        difficult to gauge, but Dyn     partment store. “It doesn’t     the East and West Coasts    hangout Github said they
and Russia claimed respon-       provides internet traffic       matter that the store is fully  as well as impacting some   briefly experienced prob-
sibility, although their asser-  management and optimi-          open or operational if you      users in Europe.            lems earlier Friday.
tion couldn’t be verified.       zation services to some of      have no idea how to get         “It’s been pretty busy for
Manchester, New Hamp-            the biggest names on the        there,” he said in a tele-      those guys,” Read said.           Continued on Page 4
shire-based Dyn Inc. said        web, including Twitter, Net-    phone interview.                “We’ve been monitoring