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The 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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