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Cyber attacks block access to major websites for eastern US

WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (KUNA) -- A series of cyber attacks hit several major websites on Friday making it impossible for users in the eastern portion of the US to access them.
Some of the websites include Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Tumblr and Reddit.
Dyn, a company that provides internet services for a range of websites, indicated in a statement that it received a global distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack beginning at 7:10 a.m. local time.
While access to some of the websites have been restored Dyn affirmed that its "engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue." (end) ak.bs