WordPress.com under a denial-of-service attack

WordPress.com being targeted with a denial-of-service attack

Automattic has confirmed that their blogging service WordPress.com has been facing a DOS attack since the last couple of days.

Due to this, access to the service is affected and some bloggers are unable to check out their accounts and blogs hosted on the servers of the company.

WordPress.com operator Automattic added that the service has been mostly restored by now and they are returning back to normal.

A denial of service attack results in heavy loads on the server which results in crashing of system services delaying access. The company said that their servers were being attacked with spikes of up to 6 gigabits of incoming traffic which resulted in some blogs remaining inaccessible for a couple of minutes.

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