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Social Media By David Cohen on August 4, 2009 11:52 AM

DDOS Attack Felled Gawker Sites

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GawkerLogo.jpgThe widespread outage across Gawker Media’s Websites Monday was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack launched by hackers, the company wrote in a blog post Tuesday morning.

CNET reported that the attacks appear to have been launched at Consumerist, which Gawker sold to Consumer Reports last year but still hosts.

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