DDoS Downs Network Solutions

Network Solutions on Monday apparently began suffering a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that left its customers unable to access DNS servers, hosted websites, servers, or email accounts.

Reports of outages began appearing late on Monday, and by Tuesday the company was blaming a DDoS attack. "Some customers may see interruptions caused by a ddos distributed denial of service attack. Our network folks are working on it," said multiple posts to the Network Solutions Twitter feed on Tuesday morning.

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