Bluesky, the decentralised microblogging social media platform, reported service outages last week due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aimed at its systems.
The DDoS attack appears to have started late on April 15 (Pacific Time) and continued into the next day. The company described it as a sophisticated attack that caused intermittent app outages.
“The attack is impacting our application, with users experiencing intermittent interruptions in service for their feeds, notifications, threads and search,” Bluesky said. “We have not seen any evidence of unauthorised access to private user data,” it added.
The company did not say who was behind the attack. A hacker group called 313 Team took credit for taking down the social media service, but their claims have not been independently verified. 313 Team, also known as ‘Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq’, claims to be a pro-Iran hacktivist group. Bluesky said it managed to mitigate the attack and prevent extended service outages, despite the assault continuing for roughly 24 hours.
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