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That collective Internet freakout you heard yesterday was the sound of people worldwide realizing many of their favorite social networking sites were experiencing major technical difficulties—difficulties stemming from hackers targeting just one individual. CNet reports:
A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google’s Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
The blogger, who uses the account name “Cyxymu,” (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET News.
Whether the attack had something to do with the long-brewing conflict between Georgia and Russia in unknown. But this certainly wouldn’t be the first time the conflict between the two nations spread online.
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