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'Internet Of Things' Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular Websites

'Internet Of Things' Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular Websites SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Disruptions rippled through the internet yesterday. And Dyn's clients are some of the most popular websites and services out there, and that's why when Dyn's servers were attacked - these attacks rolled through the entire day, lots of different locations - that's when you saw issues with Twitter, PayPal, Spotify, Netflix, even The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Dyn's servers were attacked in a major, complex hacking attack. Dyn says that attacks against their data centers originated from tens of millions IP addresses associated with various web-connected devices, so things like closed-circuit TV cameras, DVRs, routers.

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