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# RESOLVED: Day Long DDOS Attack That Brought Down Spotify, SoundCloud, Others Ends, Homeland Security Investigating
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/spotify-soundcloud-twitter-other-major-sites-suffer-outages-after-massive-ddos-attack-friday/
- Published: 2016-10-22T08:37:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-10-22T08:37:00.000Z
- Description: UPDATE 2: Spotify, SoundCloud, Twitter and other major sites were down or loading slowly all day on Friday thanks to a massive Distributed Denial Of Services (DD0S) attack. By Friday evening the. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/10/spotify-soundcloud-twitter-other-major-sites-s
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Tech, Streaming, Amazon Web Services, AOL, Application programming interface, Disc jockey, Donald Trump, Entertainment Weekly, GitHub, Heroku, Internal Revenue Service, Internet of things, JSON, Soundcloud, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, YouTube, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:13

[![DDOS Attack](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8a5894b970b-150wi "DDOS Attack")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8a5894b970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)**UPDATE 2: Spotify, SoundCloud, Twitter** and **other** **major sites were down or loading slowly all day on Friday** thanks to a **massive** Distributed Denial Of Services (DD0S) attack. By Friday evening the **problem had been resolved** according to the subject of the attack, managed DNS provider **DYN**.[![image from uberflip.cdntwrk.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8a5d6c4970b-200wi "image from uberflip.cdntwrk.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8a5d6c4970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Other sites affected through out the day included the Boston Globe, New York Times, Github, Shopify, Airbnb, Box, Freshbooks, Heroku and Vox Media. While the first attacks appeared to be worse in the U.S. east coast, eventually it spread west and to Europe as well. While the source of the attacks has not been named, with the help of other infrastructure companies Akamai and Flashpoint, Dyn determined that some of the traffic used in the attacks came from the Mirai botnet, a network of infected Internet of Things devices that has been used in other major DDoS attacks, according to [TechCrunch.](https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/?ref=hypebot.com)The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is monitoring the situation and "investigating all potential causes" of the outages. By Friday evening, DNS reported that they had kicked all of the attackers off its service. Get the latest status update from DYN [here](https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8?ref=hypebot.com). 

[![Dyn  Inc. Status   DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8a5d6b2970b-500wi "Dyn  Inc. Status   DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8a5d6b2970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)  

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