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Paypal is currently under attack by an unknown source. They are getting hit with a ddos attack, or distributed denial of service attack. This is a type of attack that overloads a server by sending millions of traffic packages to the server all at once and it will eventually be too much and take down the server so no one can access the website.
Back in the day people would use something called "low orbit ion cannon" to easily run a ddos attack if they didn't really know what they were doing. It was basically software that you input the website name and how many visitors you wanted to send to it per minute, and it would crash a server. The attack on paypal is similar to this, but I doubt they are using old time software to do this.
Taking down paypals servers is not easy feat because of how large they are in order to handle all their current traffic. The attackers must have an intricate set up in order to do this, and I'm pretty sure it's not a single person doing this. A huge team of people (anonymous maybe) could do this if they set their minds to it.
I found out that paypal was down because I was attempting to log in through the app to check my balance and I thought my business partner had changed our password. I soon found out that not many people could access it in the US. It seems to be up and down all day and hopefully it stops soon so I can access my account and withdraw money for dinner :'(
Another thing we figured out is that Googles DNS is failing. This is most likely due to the same reason that paypal is failing over and over again. ProCoder said that a lot of big corporations are using Dyn DNS and it seems their website is down as well.
This is a coordinated attack and probably took a good amount of planning.
Is anyone else having problems with paypal?
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