The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack
Posted in: Online TV/Music at 17/05/2012 14:02
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
The site has been largely inaccessible for the last 24 hours, and the service is intermittent in the UK.
The Pirate Bay has confirmed the attack on its Facebook page, saying that it did not know who was behind it, although it "had its suspicions".
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18095370
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