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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 07 > Hackers attack Twitter; Facebook also slows

Hackers attack Twitter; Facebook also slows


August 7, 2009

NEW YORK " A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems.

Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time,....

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