Hacker attack blacks out BBC website
Sources within the BBC say the sites were offline thanks to what is known as (DDOS) attack

"Sources within the BBC said the sites were offline thanks to what is known as a 'distributed denial of service' (DDOS) attack," the BBC reported.
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Users trying to access BBC.com and related websites could only see an error message saying: "The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy."
The BBC press office blamed the problem on a "technical issue".
"We're aware of a technical issue affecting the BBC website and are working to fix this now," it said in a statement.
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Despite continued problems with access to the sites, it said in a later update: "The BBC website is now back up and operating normally."
The BBC's international website BBC.com and its news app reached a readership of more than 101 million unique browsers a month earlier this year.
DDOS attacks are used to slow down or disable a network by flooding it with communication requests.
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