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For those who are not aware, a ton of websites and services were and currently still are impacted by a highly sophisticated DDoS attack today. Below is a list c/o Gizmodo.com, of websites and services currently reported to have been impacted - although this list by far is not complete.

The Verge
Twillo
Twitter
Urbandictionary.com (lol)
Weebly
Wired.com
Wix Customer Sites
Yammer
Yelp
Zendesk.com
Zoho CRM
Credit Karma
Eventbrite
Netflix
NHL.com
Fox News
Disqus
Shopify
Soundcloud
Atom.io
Ancersty.com
ConstantContact
Indeed.com
New York Times
Weather.com
WSJ.com
time.com
xbox.com

As you can see from the list above, there are several key websites and services that have been affected.

How was this done

As most people know, it would take an enormous amount of resources to attack so many websites and services individually. What these hackers did was attack a major DNS host which translates Domain names to IP Addresses in order to route users to specific websites.

The question right now is, Is this just the beginning? and also who is behind it? Agencies believe that "this is too large scale for an organized group of hackers and feels that large nation states are behind it." Could this be the start of the end for the internet as we know it?

What are your thoughts? Let me know what you think in the comments below.

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