July 28, 2011 - 5:35am
LiveJournal has suffered a massive cyber attack this week
that disrupted the service for many users.
Tuesday LiveJournal reported that it underwent a prolonged
outage that had begun the day before. Wednesday the journal page displayed the
message:
We can now publicly
disclose that we have been experiencing a large-scale DDoS attack the last two
days, which has been the reason for the site issues most users have been
experiencing. The traffic load has been immense, at many times our normal load
level, and the attack is still on-going. We are in constant contact with our
providers to mitigate the attack as best as possible. We again apologize for
the disruption to LiveJournal usage, and are working to get everything back to
normal as soon as we can. Thank you!
Now livejournal.com is working in normal mode.