Bluesky Experiences Intermittent Outages Due to Sophisticated DDoS Attack
Social media platform Bluesky is currently experiencing significant service disruptions following a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that intensified throughout the day. The incident began around 1:42 AM ET on April 17, initially presenting as connection timeout issues affecting specific servers, including one in the US East region. Users reported intermittent failures in loading feeds, notifications, threads, and search functions, describing the experience as a rolling blackout rather than a total outage. Bluesky acknowledged the issue on its status page, notably misspelling regions as reginos, and confirmed that while services were impacted, there is no evidence of unauthorized access to private user data. The attack caused intermittent interruptions even to the platform's own status monitoring page. As of the latest update, the situation remains ongoing with services fluctuating. Bluesky has promised to provide further updates on the mitigation efforts and service restoration progress by 1 PM ET on April 17. This event marks another recent stability challenge for the platform, following a brief outage earlier in the month.
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Bluesky Experiences Intermittent Outages Due to Sophisticated DDoS Attack
Social media platform Bluesky is currently experiencing significant service disruptions following a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that intensified throughout the day. The incident began around 1:42 AM ET on April 17, initially presenting as connection timeout issues affecting specific servers, including one in the US East region. Users reported intermittent failures in loading feeds, notifications, threads, and search functions, describing the experience as a rolling blackout rather than a total outage. Bluesky acknowledged the issue on its status page, notably misspelling regions as reginos, and confirmed that while services were impacted, there is no evidence of unauthorized access to private user data. The attack caused intermittent interruptions even to the platform's own status monitoring page. As of the latest update, the situation remains ongoing with services fluctuating. Bluesky has promised to provide further updates on the mitigation efforts and service restoration progress by 1 PM ET on April 17. This event marks another recent stability challenge for the platform, following a brief outage earlier in the month.
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