White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the Department of Homeland Security was “monitoring the situation” but that “at this point I don’t have any information about who may be responsible for this malicious activity.”
Reads the top of Twitter’s trending topics page: “Today’s Brutal DDoS Attack Is the Beginning of a Bleak Future.” The site was working properly as of mid-afternoon, and users were tweeting their reaction.
Some concerned:
Uh oh. Waves of cyber attacks hit Netflix, Spotify, Twitter https://t.co/7TzhfO3XZF via @USATODAY
— Katherine Lee (@katherine_lee1) October 21, 2016
Some resigned:
Just another ‘new normal’ #Cyber-attack? #GlobalRiskAgility. https://t.co/r6h4Liheol
